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Byline: Russell Working
May 10--The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit by two young women who were abused as girls by a former Geneva priest, church officials announced Thursday.
The victims filed suit after Rev. Mark Campobello pleaded guilty to molesting the girls, then teenagers, in 1999 at St. Peter's parish and at Aurora Central Catholic High School, where Campobello was an assistant principal, teacher and spiritual director.
"Although the settlement amounts were a heavy burden for the diocese, the diocese owed restorative justice to the two women for their injuries," said Penny Wiegert,…
Source: HighBeam Research, Rockford Diocese sex abuse settlement announced.