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Convicted Child Molester, Therapist


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The Indiana Attorney Generals Office has filed a formal complaint against former South Bend counselor Mark Strobel, a convicted child molester with an arrest record spanning two states.

Strobel had been convicted in 1987 of molesting a child at the Lydia Children's Home in Chicago. Strobel was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse in 1987 after fondling an 11-year-old boy at Lydia, a foster children's home. Strobel, then 25, admitted he fondled the boy in December 1984 when he was resident adviser at the home.

Cook County Criminal Court Judge Michael Bolan sentenced Strobel to four years of probation and ordered him to undergo psychiatric treatment.

Two months later, Strobel -- by then a social worker at the Valley View School District in Bolingbrook -- was arrested by the Bolingbrook Police Department in suburban Chicago for investigation of charges of criminal sexual assault, said Sgt. Tom Ross, the department's public information officer.
Police requested the Will County state's attorney's office charge Strobel with seven counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault. Police records show some of the alleged victims later recanted their statements, and the case was dropped.
After leaving Bethany in 1995, Strobel worked at the Madison Center in South Bend for seven years. In 2002, he was put on trial for two charges of criminal sexual conduct over a period of two years involving a boy. A jury acquitted him.

The attorney general's complaint says Strobel's criminal conviction has a direct bearing on his ability to continue his practice competently, and that he "engaged in fraud or material deception" during his practice.
The attorney general's filing also says Strobel knowingly violated state regulations, engaged in "a course of lewd or immoral conduct" in connection with his practice and even "engaged in sexual activities with minor clients."



Strobel opened Bright Star Counseling Center- it offers out patient treatment to minors. Lets hope that South Bend, IN keeps a bit better tabs on this man through confinement. I certainly do not believe that he should be permitted to treat young people especially those who already have issues in their lives to deal with. Or actually- he should be the one being treated- not treating others.
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