Maryland mayor charged in suspected case of revenge porn

CAMBRIDGE, Md. — The politician of a municipality connected Maryland's Eastern Shore has been charged successful a suspected lawsuit of revenge porn.

On Monday, the Office of the State Prosecutor released a 50 number indictment accusing Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw of posting explicit photos of an ex-girlfriend to the website Reddit.

Charging documents accidental Bradshaw distributed the photos successful dozens of posts connected the forum betwixt April and May of this year.

The ex-girlfriend made authorities alert aft seeing the backstage photos circulating online.

She told constabulary that Bradshaw was the lone idiosyncratic she had ever shared the photos with, and helium was ne'er fixed support to merchandise them.

At the time, the 2 were reportedly successful a romanticist relationship.

Nearly each the photos are captioned with sexually degrading and humiliating comments, immoderate of which adjacent see the woman's sanction and birthday.

According to tribunal papers, the IP code from wherever the photos were uploaded came backmost to a spot owned by Bradshaw.

“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."

If convicted, Bradshaw could look up to 100 years down bars.

Bradshaw took bureau successful January of this year. According to his online bio, helium is the youngest politician ever elected successful the past of Cambridge.

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