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	Former Priest Sent Back to Prison for Parole Violation Mark Campobello, 43, Who Was Ordained in Rockford, Already Served Four Years Rockford Register Star April 16, 2008 http://www.rrstar.com/communities/x170770369 ROCKFORD — Mark Campobello, the former Catholic priest who served four years in prison for the sexual abuse of two teenage girls, is back in prison. He was being held in Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet on Wednesday, according to an alert from the Attorney General's Illinois Automated Victim Notification system. Campobello, 43, who was living in McHenry County since he was paroled Feb. 13, was taken into custody Monday on a violation of his parole, likely for missing an appointment or an unauthorized trip, according to a report published in the Daily Herald. He was ordained in the Rockford diocese in 1991 and served at Holy Family and St. Peter parishes and St. James in Belvidere. He was arrested while in Belvidere for sexual assaults that occurred in 1999 and 2000 when he was at a parish and Catholic high school in Geneva and Aurora. He served half of his eight-year sentence and has been expelled from the priesthood. The diocese paid his victims $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit in which they charged the church should have known that Campobello was a danger to young people.
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