Convicted sex offender Dale Schimpf is set to be released from state prison next month.
Schimpf, 76, will have served the maximum of the 3-to-6-year sentence imposed on him in 2019 when he’s released on Feb. 25. He pled guilty to charges of Statutory Sexual Assault and Corruption of Minors. A charge of Indecent Exposure in that case tacked on an additional 4 years of probation.
On Friday, Schimpf appeared virtually from State Correctional Institution-Benner Township at a hearing to set conditions of his probation. Schuylkill County Judge Christina Hale presided over the hearing.
Schimpf agreed to additional conditions on his probation, including the Standard Special Conditions for Sex Offenders, Optional Special Conditions for Sex Offenders, Conditions for Governing Parole/Re-parole, Special Conditions of Parole, and Supplemental Special Conditions for Sex Offenders.
During Friday’s hearing, Schimpf spoke very little, only telling Hale that he understood the conditions governing his upcoming release and probation period.
When he was arrested on Feb. 25, 2019, Schimpf was working as a music teacher and band director at Nativity BVM High School in Pottsville. Schimpf was taken into custody by police from Tamaqua and he was remanded to Schuylkill County Prison after being unable to post $100,000 bail.
Schimpf had also worked as a music teacher at the former Cardinal Brennan High School, within the North Schuylkill School District, and at several other private, Catholic schools in Schuylkill County.
Police at the time were acting on a complaint that Schimpf had sex with a teenage boy from Schuylkill County, meeting him on the Grindr app. Schimpf arranged a meeting, took the child to dinner, and then back to his house where he sexually assaulted him.
Schimpf tried to explain his actions by saying he believed the person he was meeting was 30 years old, not 13.
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