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Penn State Coach's Harassment Made Maryland Majorette Suicidal: Complaint Penn State Coach's Harassment Made Maryland Majorette Suicidal: Complaint
Penn State Coach's Harassment Made Maryland Majorette Suicidal: Complaint Penn State is required to respond to a former Blue Band Majorette's lawsuit within 14 days, a federal judge ruled on May 7, 2024, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice.  Kaitlyn Wassel, of Hagerstown, Maryland developed a "passion for twirling" during a "free 8-week trial clinic in her hometown," as stated in the complaint filed in Dec. 2023.  When the clinic ended, she joined the local twirling club, quickly advancing to a national competition team, her lawyer explained on her and her family's behalf in the background portion of the case documen…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Former DC Police Officer From MD Gets Jail Time For Assaulting, Threatening Coworkers: DOJ Former DC Police Officer From MD Gets Jail Time For Assaulting, Threatening Coworkers: DOJ
Former DC Police Officer From MD Gets Jail Time For Assaulting, Threatening Coworkers: DOJ A former Metropolitan Police officer will be joining some of the suspects he put away during a decades-long career for a short spell after being sentenced for assaulting members of the department, federal authorities announced. Robert Anderson, 55, of Hanover, Maryland, was sentenced to five months of incarceration for a series of simple assaults that involved offensive touching and his brandishing of a knife toward a man who attempted to intervene, prosecutors say. According to federal officials, in January 2019, a female officer working at the Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) Fifth …

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by Zak Failla
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Balding Middle-Aged Man Flashes Female UMD Students On Shuttle Bus: Police Balding Middle-Aged Man Flashes Female UMD Students On Shuttle Bus: Police
Balding Middle-Aged Man Flashes Female UMD Students On Shuttle Bus: Police Police are searching for a balding, middle-aged man who they say exposed himself to a group of females on a University of Maryland shuttle bus Friday, Sept. 2, campus police said. A female student told police she and her two friends got on Shuttle-UM 104 at the Wind Tunnel building around 5:30 p.m., when a male attempted to engage with one of her friends in the group, UMD police said. The group got up and relocated to a different area of the bus, but the male got up and sat near one of the females — and exposed himself, police said. The group got off the bus at the College Park Metro and co…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Maryland Man Admits To Posing As Women To Entice Boys, Threatening Families Maryland Man Admits To Posing As Women To Entice Boys, Threatening Families
Maryland Man Admits To Posing As Women To Entice Boys, Threatening Families A Baltimore man who pretended to be a young girl to lure boys into sending explicit content to him has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor, officials say. Matthew K. Walsh, 24, admitted that he created the fake profiles that he used to contact the boys from 2016 until 2021, according to the Department of Justice. The boys Walsh targeted ranged from 12 to 17 years old, they said. At least 40 victims have been identified as being abused by Walsh, and at least 30 of those had their content distributed to others. Walsh used several platforms to entice the boys to send the sexual i…

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by Annie DeVoe
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Maryland Police Impersonator Tells Driver Sexual Act Would Clear Her Of Wrongdoing Maryland Police Impersonator Tells Driver Sexual Act Would Clear Her Of Wrongdoing
Maryland Police Impersonator Tells Driver Sexual Act Would Clear Her Of Wrongdoing Authorities are seeking the police impersonator who stopped a Maryland driver and told her that if she performed a sexual act that "everything would be forgotten." The woman was heading south on Fort Smallwood Road near Kembo Road in Curtis Bay at approximately 12:40 a.m. on Feb. 3, when she was stopped by an unmarked vehicle illuminating solid (non-flashing) red and blue overhead lights, Anne Arundel County Police said. A white male dressed in an unknown police or security type uniform told her to get out of her vehicle under suspicion of impaired driving.  The male then conduct…

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by Cecilia Levine