JOLIET (IL)
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[The David Rudofski Child Protection Archive – BishopAccountability.org]
Posted by Lorraine Swanson (Editor) , May 01, 2014
Newly released files from the Diocese of Joliet detail the seminary records, sexual abuse allegations and correspondence of a former Hinsdale priest convicted of abusing three boys at St. Isaac Jogues Church.
The Hinsdale boys were just three of the 31 children Rev. Fred Lenczycki admitted to molesting in six parishes in California, Missouri and Illinois for 25 years until 1999. Many of his victims were altar servers, reports said.
He was removed from ministry in 2002 and convicted two years later in DuPage County of aggravated criminal sexual assault against a child. The priest was sentenced to five years.
Today, Lenczycki lives in Berkeley, IL, as a registered sex offender labeled “sexually violent.” He claims he no longer feels the urges that caused him to abuse children in the past.
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