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	Ex-Priest on Parole after Serving Time By Steve Lord Herald News February 14, 2008 http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/793608,4_1_JO14_PRIEST_S1.article A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of molesting teenage girls in Geneva and Aurora was released from prison and started his parole Wednesday. Mark Campobello, 43, left the Illinois River Correctional Center in Canton Wednesday as scheduled, Derek Schnapp, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Corrections, confirmed. Campobello was imprisoned for three years and eight months after he pleaded guilty in 2004 to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl between January and May 1999 while he lived at the rectory of St. Peter Church in Geneva. He also pleaded guilty to molesting a 15-year-old girl while she was student at Aurora Central Catholic High School between November 1999 and March 2000, while he served as assistant principal at the school. He is scheduled to be on parole for four years and must register within five days as a sex offender. Campobello was expelled from the priesthood by the Vatican in 2005 on a petition by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford. The diocese last year issued an apology to the two female victims of Campobello, who are now adults, and settled a lawsuit brought by the two women for $2.2 million. Contact: slord@scn1.com
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