A lawsuit that resulted in a $18 million jury verdict against a West Side transitional home faced appellate justices Wednesday in arguments over whether the facility owed a duty to three women who were raped by a parolee that escaped its care.After nearly 70 minutes of oral argument at the Bilandic Building, 1st District Appellate Justice Sheldon A. Harris urged attorneys representing both sides to settle.In the underlying lawsuit, a Cook County jury entered an award against St. Leonard’s Ministries in July 2015 for …