Crime & Safety
NH Tech Educator Faces Attempted Child Rape, Computer Charges
Christopher Gempp of Derry, a technology teacher at Timberlane Regional Middle School, was arrested on felony charges in Nashua Thursday.
NASHUA, NH — Nashua police have arrested at technology teacher on attempted child rape and computer services charges after a two-month investigation.
For more than a year, police in Nashua, who are also affiliated with the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, have been tracking accused and potential child sex crime suspects. In April, police began investigating Christopher Gempp, 36, of Derry as part of a "sexual exploitation of children on the Internet" case accusing him of "communicating with a person he believed to be a child," according to Lt. Matthew DiFava of the department's Special Investigations Unit.
Limited information is available about the investigation at post time but at 3:47 p.m. Wednesday, Gempp was arrested in Nashua and charged with attempted felonious sexual assault and certain uses of computer services prohibited, both felonies. He was held on $5,000 cash bail.
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Gempp is scheduled to be arraigned in Hillsborough County Superior Court South Thursday. He faces 14 years in prison and fines if convicted.
According to his Facebook site and the Timberlane Regional Middle School website, he is a technology educator at the school. The school teaches children in Atkinson, Danville, Plaistow, and Sandown.
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Meagan Koelker, the principal of the school, did not return an email at post time about Gempp's employment status.
Grant Bosse, the communications director for the New Hampshire Department of Education, said Gempp has been placed on administrative leave and the department has started an investigation of Gempp.
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