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	Ex-Geneva Priest Back in Custody By David Fitzgerald Kane County Chronicle April 17, 2008 http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2008/04/17/news/local/doc4807006db4db0923045340.txt GENEVA Former St. Peter priest Mark Campobello, who pleaded guilty to molesting two teenage girls, is back in state custody after violating his parole. Campobello, 43, who now lives in Crystal Lake as a registered sex offender, is not facing any new charges, Illinois Department of Corrections spokesman Derek Schnapp said. He pleaded guilty in 2004 to abusing two teenage girls while he was a priest at St. Peter Catholic Church in Geneva and a teacher at Aurora Central Catholic High School in 1999 and 2000. Campobello was released from prison in February after serving three years and eight months at Illinois River Correctional Center in downstate Canton. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. Schnapp said Campobello was taken into custody Monday and currently is lodged in a Dixon prison for a "technical parole violation." Schnapp said he could not elaborate on the nature of the violation. Campobello will remain in custody pending a meeting with the prisoner review board, which will decide his punishment, if any. The board set certain rules that Campobello was supposed to follow as part of his four years of parole, but those rules are confidential. In May 2007, the Rockford Diocese paid a $2.2 million settlement to Campobello's two victims, who now are in their 20s. The families of the girls had sued the diocese, Bishop Thomas Doran and Campobello, alleging that the diocese and Doran ignored warning signs and did not conduct background checks on Campobello. A judge entered a default judgment on Campobello in 2004, long before the lawsuit was settled, after he failed to respond to the lawsuit from prison.
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