Mark Campobello
A former Geneva, Illinois priest and registered sex offender is back behind bars for a second parole violation in less than a year.
Mark Campobello, 45, of Crystal Lake, spent nearly four years at the Illinois River facility in Canton, after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in 2004.
The de-frocked priest is classified as a sexual predator, a designation which requires him to register annually for the rest of his life. He apparently violated parole by not maintaining a permanent address.
Since Campobello was paroled in February of 2008, he was soon behind bars again, spending May through July incarcerated for what board officials said was a “minor” parole violation.
The Illinois Prisoner Review Board will have to determine the length of Campobello’s incarceration for this current offense. In May, Jorge Montes, chairman of the review board, was quoted as saying that while that infraction was minor in nature, the three month imprisonment was meant “to remind him [Campobello] that he needs to follow the parole rules to a T.”
Shortly before his scheduled trial date in May of 2004, Campobello pleaded guilty to sexually molesting two adolescent girls while living at St. Peter Parish in Geneva. One victim was a student at the Geneva parish’s school and according to police reports, some of the abuse incidents occurred in the church rectory. The other victim was a student of Aurora Central Catholic High School, where Campobello served as an assistant principal and spiritual director.
The victims filed a civil suit against Campobello, Bishop Thomas Doran and the Rockford Diocese, claiming officials knew of the abuse and did not take appropriate action to stop it. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford eventually paid a total of $2.2 million to settle the claim in 2007.
The diocese petitioned the Vatican to have Campobello officially removed from the priesthood in 2005.
While Campobello bounces in and out of the Illinois Department of Corrections, his former Geneva parish and its current pastor, Joseph Jarmoluk are reportedly the subject of a documentary film being made about the case by a New York production company called CTL NYC. The production company maintains a promotional website about the film, entitled "Forsaken," as well as an internet radio show and a message board.
For more info: Illinois Sex Offender Information sex offender neighborhood mapping documenting the abuse crisis in the Catholic church Bullying, harassment, intimidation continue to this day at St. Peter, Geneva, Illinois
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Theives All of them!
A law using the internet connections of thieves tattling someone touched me while organizing online, getting paid tax dollars to set up one another for political and monetary gain in a recession? This is a scam making money on every home they can take from their neighbor, and sell it on TV, because unless they can get richer they have no time for anyone. These bottom feeders can't come up a way to hide their crimes except to exterminate/incarcerate their abuse victims before they ask for their homes back proves they may as well go for broke. They made this mess and now they will clean it up the good old fashion Waco Texas way and lie to the world. Try a goggle search see for yourself results where a law and the consequences of that law has brought a nation to its knees.
do a search yourself.
136,097 for murder
17,978 for burglary
10,947 for car theft
9,065 for drunk driving
2,921 for child molester
64,000,000 for sex and the city
This small group of garbage use fear and faith groups to keep a way of life reminiscent of the Spanish inquisitor unable to recognize that hunting humans is no more legal on the web than it would be anywhere except Borneo in the 1400’s and California today. We are not talking about fines/time for a crime spent addressing that crime in prison. We are talking about over reactive people telling fellow humans where and where not to go/do for past actions after they have paid their debt to society and now making a living on their suffering the web by making a living hell for people that just want them out of their lives. Bottom feeders striping their neighbors gold teeth leaving them blooded by their inhuman actions of greed seeing something they want and having no valid clam other than powerful people who will hunt a person down no matter where they are on the planet and continue persecution and now this has infiltrated our own credit companies policy proving its not about care it is about misdirected greed where one in 40 people in America are actively being monitored by someone else. This is absurd! Anyone who has been in the public schools system remembers school protocol. The guys getting away with everything were the same ones hanging with the principles. Now my guess is the outcome has proved the sex offender’s data base was designed by real killers. Religious people who feel the need to track down sex offenders anywhere in the world to monitor, steal from, annoy, harass, kill for an ideology missing incite for having never allowed anyone to live long enough to tell them they are wrong to their face. Spare the rod and spoil the child? Who is really acting like children on the play ground pointing at the sex offender telling falsehoods to see a fight and pick up the Lose Change?
Whoever wrote that sounds psychotic. See a doctor quick. While you're in the waiting room, bring a book and brush up on your grammar skills. Holy Cripes...
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