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	Priest from STL Area Is Ruled As Sexually Violent Offender St. Louis Post-Dispatch March 20, 2008 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/3F9D7E41BED0408F86257412000990CA?OpenDocument WHEATON, Ill. A DuPage County jury has ruled that a Roman Catholic priest who spent a decade in the St. Louis area before he was convicted of sexually abusing school boys in the 1980s must stay in state custody because he is a sexually violent person. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the Rev. Fred Lenczycki is the first clergy member committed under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act. The law allows prosecutors to seek commitment in a state facility of sex offenders they believe will re-offend. Lenczycki, 63, pleaded guilty in 2004 to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced to five years in prison. He was paroled in 2006. Lenczycki was chaplain for the DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton from 1996 until 2002, when he was charged with molesting three 12-year-old boys 20 years earlier when he was with a Hinsdale, Ill., church. In 2004, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
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