Mayor Accused Of Posting Revenge Porn On Reddit, Charged With 50 Counts

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (WJZ) — Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw is charged with violating Maryland’s revenge porn statute, the Office of the State Prosecutor said Monday. Bradshaw is charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn.

Charging documents allege Bradshaw made aggregate accounts connected Reddit, a assemblage forum website, with usernames that had the sanction and day of the victim, a pistillate antecedently successful a narration with him. From those accounts, helium posted nude photos of her without her consent connected forums related to sex, humiliation, degradation and race, officials said.

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If convicted, Bradshaw would look a maximum penalty of 2 years’ incarceration and a $5,000 good for each count.

“Using someone’s backstage images without their consent is simply a superior breach of spot and penetration of privacy, and the powerfulness and breadth of the net makes specified a usurpation adjacent much egregious”, said State Prosecutor Charlton Howard, “Our bureau is committed to protecting victims from those who maltreatment their positions of powerfulness and trust.”

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According to Cambridge’s website, Bradshaw is simply a lifelong nonmigratory of the country and took bureau successful January, becoming the youngest politician successful the town’s history.

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