By Geri Nikolai
Rockford Register Star
February 20, 2008
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Mark Campobello, the former Catholic priest who was in prison for four years for sexual abuse of two teenage girls, has been living in McHenry County since he was paroled last week.
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Campobello, 43, was required to register on the state's sex offender list and listed an address in Crystal Lake. His residence was approved by corrections authorities before he was released.
Campobello 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.
Campobello 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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