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	Former Priest Being Released from Prison WQAD April 9, 2006 http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4746380&nav=1sW7 DIXON, Ill. Former DuPage County Roman Catholic priest Fred Lenczycki (len-ZISK'-ee) is due to be released Tuesday from the Dixon Correctional Center, where he has been serving since his child molestation convictions in 2004. Lenczycki's case spurred a law requiring religious officials to alert civil authorities to suspicions of sexual misconduct. His pending release is sparking renewed criticism of how the Joliet Diocese has handled such cases. The 61-year-old Lenczycki pleaded guilty to molesting three altar boys in 1984 at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Hinsdale. After prosecutors successfully fought the statute of limitations, he was sentenced in 2004 to five years in prison. Other boys also claimed Lenczycki molested them in Missouri and California, where the Joliet Diocese reassigned him after the Hinsdale allegations surfaced.
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