Sexually violent priest released from custody

A Roman Catholic priest with a history that includes abusing as many as 30 boys, many from Chicago's suburbs, was freed from state custody this morning and will continue treatment as an outpatient.

Fred Lenczycki, 65, the first priest in the country to be declared sexually violent, left the DuPage County courthouse after a judge signed off on a treatment plan. Lenczycki was accompanied by a conditional release supervisor. State officials said that he will be living in Cook County, not with a family member, and that the people in charge of his future treatment will register him at a local police station today as a child sex offender.

The exact details of his treatment plan and his residence were not released this morning. DuPage Judge Bonnie Wheaton impounded the case file last year to protect the identity of the abuse victims.
"There will be a lot of people watching you," Wheaton told Lenczycki this morning. "This case engendered a lot of media attention and you will be closely monitored.

"You have a heavy responsibility," she continued. "The people in (the state treatment facility in) Rushville are counting on you to show how you act. You owe it to the people who were young, the victims, you owe them the responsibility. Don't disappoint them.

"The court is going out on a limb. I decided this case not as a criminal case, but as a mental health case."

Lenczycki, dressed in a sweater and slacks, said "yes" several times and within minutes was released by the security guards of the Department of Human Services who brought him to the courthouse from Rushville. Lenczycki left in a pickup truck driven by a conditional release agent who is to assist him in acclimating to his freedom. All Lenczycki appeared to be carrying was a medium-size gym bag.

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for going out on a limb for this bastard who raped children? I'd like to know what his victims think of this. Why on earth would the judge think he can handle the "responsibility" she gave him when he couldn't even handle the responsibility of not being sexually VIOLENT with the children who viewed him as a man of God?

treatment plan for rapists?

Can't treat a PRIEST like a normal child molester can we? He's a "MAN OF GOD" don't you know, high class, better than some low-I.Q. molester. :sarcasm: