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	Archdiocese Official Quits He Gave Felon a Job Doing Criminal Background Checks By Dan Horn Cincinnati Enquirer May 31, 2006 http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060531/NEWS01/605310353/1077 The Archdiocese of Cincinnati's personnel director resigned Tuesday after coming under fire for hiring a felon to supervise their criminal background-check program. Vince Frasher, a church employee for 19 years, also faces allegations of sexual misconduct made by the man he hired to run the program. Frasher said in a letter to Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk that it was "in the best interest of all concerned" that he resign immediately. "Decisions and judgments I have made over the course of the past several years may have resulted in difficulties for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati." Frasher's resignation comes as the archdiocese and Hamilton County prosecutors investigate his relationship with Alex Henties, the former supervisor of the background-check program. Henties, 32, has accused Frasher of abusing him while he was growing up in Montgomery. Frasher, 61, hired Henties to supervise the program despite a criminal past, which Frasher told officials included a theft offense about 10 years ago. Court records show a more extensive criminal history. Henties was on probation in two states for most of his tenure. He was convicted of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in Hamilton County one week before he was hired in June 2003. Three months later, he was arrested again in Dearborn County, Ind., on drunken-driving charges. He also has multiple drug arrests and is in prison because of a new charge of fleeing police. Frasher fired Henties nine months ago, after his most recent arrest. Frasher could not be reached Tuesday, but he has denied abusing Henties. Church spokesman Dan Andriacco said the archdiocese's investigation into the abuse claim would continue. He said Frasher, who has been on paid leave, was not pressured to quit. The archdiocese will hire an outside expert to review the background-check program, he said, which has fingerprinted more than 30,000 church employees and volunteers. E-mail dhorn@enquirer.com
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