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	Lawyers May See Files Used in Priest's Conviction Chicago Tribune [Illinois] May 26, 2006 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-0605260179 may26,1,4433492.story?coll=chi-newslocalnorthwest-hed The criminal files used to convict Rev. Frederick A. Lenczycki, a Roman Catholic priest, of child molestation in 2004 can be reviewed by defense attorneys and by prosecutors who are trying to have him declared a sexually violent person. DuPage County Judge Edward Duncan ruled Thursday that the files, including grand jury transcripts, cannot be made public, but can be reviewed by the Illinois attorney general's office and defense attorneys involved in the civil case. Lenczycki, 61, 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 in April 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. Duncan said that if either set of attorneys want mental health experts to review the criminal files, they would need his further approval.
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