{"id":264586,"date":"2026-08-13T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264586\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:32:13","slug":"northampton-borough-fire-department-captain-michael-dempsey-jr-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-14-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264586\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton Borough Fire Department captain, Michael Dempsey, Jr., charged with sexually assaulting 14-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, August 13, 2026 10:42AM<\/p>\n<p>A volunteer firefighter in the Lehigh Valley is suspended while he&#8217;s being investigated for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NORTHAMPTON, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A volunteer firefighter in the Lehigh Valley is suspended while he&#8217;s being investigated for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Michael Dempsey, Jr., was a captain of the Northampton Borough Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 40-year-old is accused of assaulting a young girl in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Charges were just filed this month.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, August 13, 2026 10:42AM A volunteer firefighter in the Lehigh Valley is suspended while he&#8217;s being investigated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[111697,119,121,120],"class_list":["post-264586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-111697","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}