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	Appellate Court Sides with Father Fred Doings Hinsdale November 12, 2010 http://www.pioneerlocal.com/hinsdale/news/2890390,hinsdale-priestruling-111810-s1.article A Nov. 8 DuPage County Appellate Court ruling affirmed a previous decision by the DuPage County Circuit Court, allowing a former Hinsdale priest to remain conditionally released, instead of being confined to a secure institution. Fred Lenczycki, a former priest from St. Isaac Jogues Parish in Hinsdale, was released from state custody Sept. 24, 2009. Lenczycki had been convicted in 2004 of the aggravated criminal sexual abuse of three minors in the early 1980s and had served a two-year term of incarceration for those convictions. He also admitted to fondling at least 30 boys in the Chicago area, Missouri and California. Just before being released in 2006, a group of citizens petitioned to keep him in custody, and he was sent to a state mental health facility in Rushville. In March 2008, DuPage Judge Bonnie Wheaton declared him sexually violent for exhibiting signs of mental illness that suggest he could commit another sexually violent crime. On Sept. 24, 2009, Wheaton signed off on a treatment plan by Liberty Health Care Corps. to release Lenczycki into the care of a conditional-release agent, who was to monitor him for 30 days. The state appealed the ruling that allowed Lenczycki to not be confined to a secure institution. The Nov. 8 Appellate Court ruling was delivered by Justice Mary Schostok.
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