{"id":16453,"date":"2023-08-04T07:36:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16453"},"modified":"2023-08-04T07:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:36:33","slug":"former-maryland-college-town-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-abuse-material-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16453","title":{"rendered":"Former Maryland college town mayor pleads guilty to child sex abuse material charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The former mayor of a Maryland college town pleaded guilty Wednesday to more than 100 counts connected to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.<br>Patrick Wojahn had been the mayor of College Park \u2014 home to the state\u2019s flagship University of Maryland campus \u2014 up until March, when&nbsp;he was arrested.<br>Prince George\u2019s County State\u2019s Attorney Aisha Braveboy\u2019s office said the plea deal calls for Wojahn to serve a 30-year prison sentence.<br>He will be formally sentenced in November.<br>Police investigated Wojahn, 47, after receiving a tip in February from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about a social media account that was eventually traced back to him.<br>Wojahn had served as mayor since 2015.<br>An attorney listed in online court records did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday evening. When Wojahn stepped down, he said in his resignation letter he planned to \u201cdeal with my own mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/college-park-mayor-child-porn-wojahn-a79e5a35ff1de5ca8125e5716c0531f3\">Apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former mayor of a Maryland college town pleaded guilty Wednesday to more than 100 counts connected to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.Patrick Wojahn had been the mayor of College Park \u2014 home to the state\u2019s flagship University of Maryland campus \u2014 up until March, when&nbsp;he was arrested.Prince George\u2019s County State\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[20968,20969,20972],"class_list":["post-16453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-admits-to-child-sexual-abuse","tag-former-mayor-of-maryland","tag-patrick-wojahn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16455,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16453\/revisions\/16455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}