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By Laurie Willis and Laurie Willis,SUN STAFF | April 17, 2002
A Baltimore man pleaded innocent yesterday to charges of child abuse and domestic violence in a case prosecutors said is among the first in which a single jury will hear allegations of abuse against a mother and her son. An Aug. 21 trial date was set for Michael Cole, 32, whom prosecutors have charged with 13 counts, including first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. Assistant State's Attorney Julie Drake said Cole brutally abused the 3-year-old son of his girlfriend, Tiffany Myrick.
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Andrea F. Siegel,SUN STAFF | June 20, 2000
An Anne Arundel County grand jury has indicted three people on unrelated child-pornography charges. Shannon M. Jones, 20, of the 7900 block of Telegraph Road in Severn was accused of getting a 16-year-old girl drunk at her home and having sexual contact with her. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said a male friend of Jones' took photographs of her and the girl in the shower, and that the two adults downloaded pornographic photographs of children...
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Andrea F. Siegel,SUN STAFF | June 18, 2000
Three people have been indicted by an Anne Arundel County grand jury on unrelated child pornography charges. The grand jury indicted last week Shannon M. Jones, 20, of the 7900 block of Telegraph Road in Severn in an alleged incident with a 16-year-old. She is accused of getting the girl drunk at her home, removing her clothes and having sexual contact with her. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said that a male friend of Jones' took photographs of the two females in the shower and that the two adults had allegedly downloaded pornographic photographs of children from the Internet.
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By Del Quentin Wilber and Del Quentin Wilber,SUN STAFF | April 29, 1999
A 20-year-old woman accused of burning her daughter in a bathtub filled with scalding water and bleach in 1997 was arrested yesterday for allegedly failing to comply with a plea agreement that would have spared her a second trial on child-abuse charges.The trial of Mary V. Cabassa of Severn is scheduled for late next month.She was to be sentenced yesterday by Howard Circuit Judge Lenore R. Gelfman under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.Cabassa had pleaded guilty in February to charges of child abuse and second-degree assault, and prosecutors were going to recommend that Cabassa spend 18 months in jail while attending parent classes and undergoing psychological counseling.
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By Del Quentin Wilber and Del Quentin Wilber,SUN STAFF | February 17, 1999
A woman accused of scalding her 15-month-old daughter in a bathtub in 1997 pleaded guilty in Howard County Circuit Court yesterday to charges of child abuse.Mary V. Cabassa, 20, of Savage, was convicted of reckless endangerment in a jury trial three months ago. But the jurors were unable to reach a verdict on charges of child abuse and second-degree assault, and a second trial was scheduled to begin yesterday.Instead of going to trial, Cabassa pleaded guilty to child abuse. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors said they would recommend an 18-month sentence.
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By Dan Thanh Dang and TaNoah V. Sterling and Dan Thanh Dang and TaNoah V. Sterling,SUN STAFF Sun staff writer Andrea F. Siegel contributed to this article | April 20, 1996
The arrest of an Arundel High School teacher charged with possession of child pornography has deeply shaken and divided students, who knew him as a leader in youth theater and the writer of a highly praised play on child abuse.Bruce Edward McDade, a 24-year speech and drama teacher, is being held without bond at the Prince George's County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro, awaiting a bail hearing at 9 a.m. Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge James E. Kenkel.A raid on his Greenbelt home Thursday uncovered computer images of boys engaging in "sexual intercourse, masturbation, and other sexually explicit conduct," according to an affidavit written by Postal Inspector Thomas E. Boyle filed in the U. S. District Court.