Crime & Safety
Teacher Who Lives In Hoboken Arrested For Second Sex Crime
A former Jersey City high school gym teacher, arrested earlier this month for a sex crime involving a student, was arrested again Friday.
HOBOKEN, NJ — A Jersey City gym teacher who lives in Hoboken, who was arrested on Feb. 3 for the alleged sexual assault of a high school student in Jersey City, was arrested again on Friday in connection with a second assault, this one at a high school in Union City.
On Friday, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit
arrested Francisco Realpe, 43, of Hoboken, on a charge that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-
old female student while a teacher in Union City.
The new charge stems from an incident that allegedly occurred in 2004 while Realpe was a teacher at Union Hill High School. Realpe has been charged with sexual assault, a second-degree crime.
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He was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office without incident, after surrendering
with his attorney, said the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office on Monday.
Realpe appeared in Criminal Justice Reform Court on Saturday, where he
was placed on supervised release.
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Realpe was previously arrested on Feb. 3, on charges involving the sexual assault of a
17-year-old female student at Dickinson High School in Jersey City, which allegedly took place in November 2019.
The above charges are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven
guilty.
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