Sex Offense
Maryland Sex Crimes Attorney: Former Anne Arundel Police Lieutenant Sentenced to 5 Years For ‘Sexting’ Teen
On December 22nd, a former Anne Arundel County police lieutenant was sentenced to prison after he was charged with exchanging sexually explicit photos and text messages with a sixteen-year-old girl. Forty-seven-year-old James Cifala of Edgewater was convicted on a single count of receiving child pornography. The contact between Cifala and the then sixteen-year-old was allowable […]
Teen Charged in Rape and Murder of Teacher at Maryland Juvenile Detention Center
A 14-year old boy has been charged with first degree murder and first degree rape in the sexual assault and beating death of a teacher at Prince George’s County’s Cheltenham Youth Facility. Prosecutors have filed a motion to have the boy, who was 13 at the time of the murder, tried as an adult. If […]
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