In this paper sufficient second order optimality conditions for optimal control problems
subject to stationary variational inequalities of obstacle type are derived. Since
optimality conditions for such problems always involve measures as Lagrange multipliers,
which impede the use of efficient Newton type methods, a family of regularized problems is
introduced. Second order sufficient optimality conditions are derived for the regularized
problems as well. It is further shown that these conditions are also sufficient for
superlinear convergence of the semi-smooth Newton algorithm to be well-defined and
superlinearly convergent when applied to the first order optimality system associated with
the regularized problems.