Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Substitute Teacher Charged With Harboring Student Runaway

A substitute teacher in the Collier County School District was arrested Tuesday after deputies found a 15-year-old student runaway at his home in Immokalee.

Robert Kemp, 27, 1406 Plum St., was charged with kidnap of a minor-interfering with custody and interfering with a minor’s attendance at school.

Reports say deputies received information that a 15-year-old girl who had been reported as a runaway was staying at Kemp’s residence.

Deputies went to Kemp’s home around 5 p.m. Tuesday where they found Kemp, along with the missing teen, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man.

Both girls attend Collier County public schools.

The man told deputies that he didn’t know one of the girls was a runaway and that he thought Kemp was trying to help them.
Deputies notified the missing teen’s mother that she had been found.

Deputies also notified the 17-year-old girl’s mother of her whereabouts. The mother told deputies that she did not know Kemp and did not give her daughter permission to be at his house.