Ex-Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck must spend every other weekend in a Delaware work-release detention center for almost two years, a judge decided in sentencing her for having raped a 15-year-old boy in Bethany Beach last summer.
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The crime carries a punishment of up to 15 years behind bars but Shattuck is likely to receive a far shorter prison term, or possibly even probation.
The 48-year-old collapsed to her knees after she was sentenced Friday morning in a Sussex County courtroom and wept as she apologized.
“I will spend the rest of my life making this right”, she said. She will be on the sex offender registry for 25 years. “I’m sorry. I never should have responded and I never should have had a conversation with someone else’s kid”.
The victim’s father called Shattuck a “predator” at the hearing, saying she “groomed” his son over a four month period. “Any adult that rapes a child deserves to be in prison”. Shattuck, who 10 years ago was a Baltimore Ravens cheerleader, was arrested in November after a grand jury in Delaware indicted her on counts of third-degree rape, unlawful sexual contact and providing alcohol to minors.
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Police say the 15-year-old boy reported that Shattuck began an inappropriate relationship with him near Baltimore and that it culminated with sexual activity at a vacation rental home in Bethany Beach, Delaware over Labor Day weekend.
