Maryland Democrat Mayor Is Charged With 50 Counts Of Revenge Porn

A mayor in Maryland who was arrested Monday and charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn is accused of posting nude photos without the victim’s consent to the online forum Reddit, prosecutors said.

Andrew Bradshaw, 32, the mayor of Cambridge, in Dorchester County about 60 miles southeast of Annapolis, is accused of creating multiple accounts on Reddit and posting nude photographs captioned with racial slurs and sexually explicit language, State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard III said in a statement.

If he is convicted, Bradshaw could face a maximum penalty of two years incarceration and fines up to $5,000 for each count, prosecutors said.

A notice on Cambridge’s website said: “The City is aware of the matter involving the Mayor. The City is currently gathering information and will cooperate fully with the Maryland State Police and the Office of the State Prosecutor. As the City has a Council-Manager form of municipal government whereby the City Manager serves as the chief executive officer of the City and the head of its administrative branch, the business of the City is unaffected. As this is an active legal matter, no further comments will be made at this time.”

A biography that was also on the city website describes Bradshaw as a lifelong resident of the area. It said that when Bradshaw took office in January, he “became the youngest mayor in the City of Cambridge’s history.” The website also said Bradshaw lives in the city’s historic district with his partner and their two dogs, Stella and Barren.

Bradshaw had created various Reddit usernames using “permutations of the name and birthdate of” the woman, the charging document alleges, and he posted the photos to subreddit forums associated with sexual activity, humiliation, degradation, and race, according to the press release. The charging document also alleges he posted to subreddits related to “raceplay,” specifically, using “racial slurs in several of the posting titles.”

He allegedly made these posts many times. He wrote, “The kind of body black men love,” as the caption for an image posted to a raceplay subreddit in April, according to the charging document.

Some captions also mentioned religion.

“Dad sent me to Catholic school, now I’m on here helping guys nut ;)” said the caption accompanying one photo of the woman’s exposed intimate parts, according to the charging document. The image was allegedly posted in the r/DadWouldBeProud subreddit.

Another allegedly read: “He paid for Catholic school, now I post my tits on reddit so guys jerk off to me.”

And other captions, which were also seemingly written as if they came from the woman in the images, referenced the woman’s body type, according to the charging document.