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	Mental Evaluation OKd for Sex-Offender Priest Chicago Tribune [Illinois] May 2, 2006 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/nearwest/chi-0605020191 may02,1,1115245.story?coll=chi-newslocalnearwest-hed DUPAGE COUNTY -- A DuPage County judge Monday approved more mental-health examinations for Rev. Frederick A. Lenczycki, 61, a Roman Catholic priest and convicted sex offender who DuPage authorities are trying to have declared a sexually violent person. Lenczycki was convicted in 2004 of abusing three boys while serving at St. Isaac Jogues Church in Hinsdale in 1984. He was to be released from prison last month but was ordered to remain in a mental health treatment facility until a hearing on the state's allegations. Lenczycki is the first priest the state has attempted to commit under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act. Under the act, the state can force a sex offender to stay in a mental treatment facility if it can prove the person is likely to commit another sex crime once freed.
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