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Sexual predator faces more time on bail jumping charge

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A shackled Christopher Lunny enters the courtroom for his September sentencing. (Lebanon Voice file photo)

DOVER - The man currently serving at least a 25-year sentence for a pattern of sexual abuse of a young girl for four years beginning when she was just five faces another 15 years for allegedly trying to jump bail when he applied for a passport in a failed attempt to flee to Canada. His indictment on bail jumping charges was handed down Thursday by a Strafford County grand jury.

Christopher Lunny, 45, of 45 Ellsworth St., Springvale, was sentenced in September to two consecutive 10-20 year sentences and one 5-10 year sentence as part of a plea deal made days after police say he applied for the passport.

His attempt at flight ended when U.S. Marshals learned through a GPS monitoring device that he had gone to the National Passport Center in Portsmouth on Sept. 16 where he tried to get an emergency passport in his brother's name.

He reportedly told the clerk his brother was in Canada and had had a stroke.

When Lunny pressed the clerk that the passport be delivered overnight instead of waiting a couple of days, employees at the center did an Internet search on his name and noted the news accounts of his upcoming trial, prompting his arrest.

Lunny was then arraigned on fugitive from justice charges in Springvale District Court and returned to New Hampshire where his bail was revoked.

It was just two days later that Lunny decided to accept a plea deal and change his plea to guilty, saving the state the expense of a trial and the girl the trauma of testifying.

Lunny was indicted in June 2014 on five counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, a special felony due to the victim's age. Each count could have resulted in a 10-30 year sentence.

Court records allege he engaged in a pattern of sexual abuse of the girl in Rochester between 2004 and 2008, including rape and other various sexual acts.

An indictment is not an indication of guilt, only that enough evidence has been gathered to warrant a trial.

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