A former Maryland mayor who admitted to posting nude pictures of his ex-girlfriend on Reddit is not going to should spend time behind bars beneath a plea deal introduced by the state prosecutor's workplace on Monday.
Former Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw pleaded responsible to 5 counts of distributing revenge porn on-line and was sentenced to a 12 months and a day for every of the 5 counts, with the entire incarceration time suspended. He additionally was sentenced to a few years of supervised probation and fined $1,000 for every depend.
Bradshaw additionally was ordered to pay $750 in restitution to the sufferer and carry out 100 hours of neighborhood service.
The previous mayor had confronted a most penalty of two years' incarceration and a $5,000 fantastic for every depend.
Bradshaw had pleaded responsible to posting nude pictures of a girl he was as soon as in a relationship with after the connection had ended.
The lady contacted authorities in Could after studying that the pictures had been posted on Reddit. She advised authorities that she had despatched the pictures solely to Bradshaw whereas they had been in an intimate relationship, and she or he did not give him permission to redistribute them.
Investigators found that Bradshaw had made quite a few separate public posts that contained at the very least 10 distinctive visible representations of the sufferer, and that quite a few posts contained language that was associated to humiliation and degradation, the state prosecutor's workplace stated.
When interviewed, Bradshaw admitted to regulation enforcement brokers that he created the accounts and posted the sufferer's nude pictures, authorities stated. Bradshaw resigned his place as mayor in January.
"Anybody who abuses the belief and confidence of one other to degrade and humiliate them, notably by way of the usage of a discussion board as highly effective and pervasive because the Web, should be held accountable," stated State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard, III. "Such actions are particularly egregious when dedicated by a person holding a public management position of energy and authority."
Maryland regulation prohibits the nonconsensual distribution of a non-public visible illustration of one other which exposes their intimate physique elements or shows them engaged in sexual exercise, with the intent to hurt, harass, intimidate, threaten or coerce the particular person depicted.