A former Maryland mayor who admitted to posting nude photos of his ex-girlfriend on Reddit will not have to spend time behind bars under a plea deal announced by the state prosecutor’s office on Monday.
Former Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw pleaded guilty to five counts of distributing revenge porn online and was sentenced to a year and a day for each of the five counts, with all of the incarceration time suspended. He also was sentenced to three years of supervised probation and fined $1,000 for each count.
Bradshaw also was ordered to pay $750 in restitution to the victim and to perform 100 hours of community service. The former mayor had faced a maximum penalty of two years’ incarceration and a $5,000 fine for each count.
Bradshaw pleaded guilty to posting nude photos of a woman he was once in a relationship with after the relationship had ended.The woman contacted authorities in May after learning that the photos were posted on Reddit. She told authorities that she had sent the photos only to Bradshaw while they were in an intimate relationship, and she didn’t give him permission to redistribute them.
