Ex-cheerleader sentenced for raping boy

  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, broke down in sobs as she apologized for 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.

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 oral sex on the boy, a minor, over Labor Day weekend at a Bethany Beach summer home.


Shattuck, according to court records, had struck up a friendship with the boy — a minor not legally capable of consenting to sex with her — over social media earlier that year, and over the summer their encounters turned sexual.
The mother and father of the victim asked Superior Court Judge E. Scott Bradley to sentence Shattuck to more than just probation time.
“Any adult who rapes a child deserves to be in prison,” the boy’s mother said in court. “Please hold her accountable.”
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.

“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.”