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	Pedophile Priest May Leave State Facility Chicago Breaking News July 9, 2009 http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/07/protest-held-over-pedophile-priest.html DuPage County Judge Bonnie Wheaton ruled today that Fred Lenczycki will stay at a state treatment facility in Rushville until September when the state will submit a treatment plan. If Wheaton approves the plan, Lenczycki will be released by the state and allowed to live with a family member, an unsecured state facility or a group home. He will be under tight supervision and severe restrictions. Lenczycki, 65, was sentenced to prison in 2004 after pleading guilty to sexually abusing three boys at St. Isaac Jogues School in Hinsdale in the 1980s, when he was an associate pastor. He was the first Roman Catholic priest in the country to be legally declared a sexually violent person. He was declared a sexually violent person last year by a DuPage County jury, and has admitted to abusing as many as 30 youths in Hinsdale, Naperville and Romeoville and in California and Missouri. Wheaton has presided over a set of hearings to determined what his treatment should be. At noontime today, a small protest was held outside of the DuPage County courthouse by a group that urged Judge Wheaton to keep Lenczycki in a state institution. "It is really a shame that he has the potential to come back on to the streets and be around children," said Barbara Blaine, president of Survivors Network of those Abused of Priests (SNAP), who led a protest of seven people carrying placards. More details to come.
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