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	Priest Declared Sexually Violent Person, to Stay in Ill. Custody WQAD March 19, 2008 http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=8043294 WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A DuPage County jury has ruled that a a Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing school boys in the 1980s must stay in state custody because he is a sexually violent person. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the Reverend Fred Lenczycki (len-ZICK'-ee) is the first clergy member committed under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act. The law allows prosecutors to seek commitment in a state facility of sex offenders they believe will re-offend. The 63-year-old Lenczycki pleaded guilty in 2004 to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced to five years in prison. He was paroled in 2006. Madigan's office says 215 sex offenders have been committed since the law was enacted in 1998.
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