Ex-Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck
must spend every other weekend in a
Delaware work-release detention center
for nearly two years, a judge decided in sentencing her for having raped a 15- year-old boy in Bethany Beach last
summer. Shattuck, 48, spoke through heaving sobs
as she apologized for committing the
sexual offense. The Baltimore socialite
and onetime NFL cheerleader pleaded
guilty in June to one count of fourth-
degree rape, an offense with a maximum sentence of 15 years but no mandatory
minimum. Molly Shattuck admitted she raped a 15-
year-old boy in Delaware last summer. “I was the adult, and I’m sorry,” Shattuck
said through tears before she was
sentenced. “I never should have had the
conversation with someone else’s son and
I’m sorry ... I will spend the rest of my life
making this right.” Shattuck was arrested in November on
charges of third-degree rape, unlawful
sexual contact and giving alcohol to
minors; a plea deal later reduced the
charge to a less serious rape offense.
Police said she performed MouthAction on the boy, a minor, over Labor Day weekend at
a Bethany Beach summer home. Shattuck, according to court records, had connected with the boy – a minor not
legally capable of consenting to sex with
her – over social media earlier that year.
The boy was friends with her teenage
son, and the same age as him. Over the
summer, police said in affidavits, Shattuck and the boy exchanged
sexualized texts and emails, and
occasionally met in parked cars. The mother and father of the victim
asked Superior Court Judge E. Scott
Bradley to sentence Shattuck to more
than just probation time. “What she did to my son is heinous. The
fact that she paraded her pedophilia in
front of her own son is even more
disturbing,” the mother said. “Any adult
who rapes a child deserves to be in
prison. Please hold her accountable.” The victim’s father, who also spoke to the
court, said he was the one who dropped
the boy off at the home Shattuck, her
children and some of their other friends
were staying in that night. Shattuck
assured him, he said, that the children wouldn’t have any drugs or alcohol — that
they’d all be safe with her. “We were a half a mile away,” the father
said ruefully. “Never did it enter my mind
what was happening.” Deputy Attorney General John Donahue
pressed Bradley for a sentence of more
than just probation, noting the guidelines
called for a sentence between zero and
22 months. “This is a classic case of
grooming behavior,” Donahue said. “This was not a momentary lapse in judgment.”
The law, he said, makes no distinction
between adult men and adult women
who sexually abuse minor children. Bradley sentenced Shattuck to two years
of level 3 probation, and said she must
report to a violation of probation center
every other weekend, starting in
September, until she has notched 48
weekends there. He also ordered her to pay $10,650 in restitution to the victim’s
family. Shattuck must register in
Delaware as a Tier II sex offender, and
except for her own three children, she
cannot have contact with people younger
than 18. “The competing interests in this case
have been very difficult to weigh,” Bradley
said, noting both the victim’s pain — the
boy’s father said the family considered
moving away from Maryland to avoid
scrutiny and embarrassment — and Shattuck’s long fall from a privileged
perch in society after her arrest. Eugene Maurer, Shattuck’s attorney, said
his client’s life had been upended in the
period leading up to the crime by a close
relative’s drug addiction and Shattuck’s
former husband, Mayo A. Shattuck III,
leaving her for a younger woman. Maurer also told the judge the text
messages between Shattuck and the boy
before Labor Day 2014 made them seem
mutually interested in each other. “When you read the text messages, it
almost looks like there’s a romantic
relationship going on between two
adults,” he said. But by now, Maurer said,
Shattuck “has fully accepted responsibility
for her actions and has demonstrated appropriate remorse.”

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*tears shirt and boxers* raoe me to death plzzz