Former Ravens cheerleader pleads guilty to child sex charge

James Fisher | USA TODAY Sports

Show Caption Hide Caption Ex-Ravens cheerleader pleads guilty to child sex A former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader charged with having sex with a 15-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree rape. Molly Shattuck settled nine different charges, some of them more serious, by agreeing to plead guilty.

A former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader charged with having sex with a 15-year-old in Bethany Beach pleaded guilty in Sussex County Superior Court Tuesday.

Molly Shattuck pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree rape. She settled nine different charges, some of them more serious, by agreeing to plead guilty.

Superior Court judge E. Scott Bradley told Shattuck she faced up to 15 years in prison when she gets sentenced on August 14.

"Did you commit the offense you're pleading guilty to?" Bradley asked Shattuck during a brief court hearing in Georgetown.

"Yes," Shattuck replied.

A hearing for Shattuck was recently added to the court's calendar, ahead of a long-scheduled case review hearing set for Wednesday.

Shattuck, 48, was indicted in November on charges of third-degree rape, second-degree unlawful sexual contact and obtaining alcohol for a minor. Police in court documents said she initiated a relationship with a 15-year-old boy last summer, first contacting him on Instagram.

Authorities allege she had sexual interaction with the boy – a friend of her son's – in a rented house in Bethany Beach on Labor Day weekend 2014. Late at night, in a bedroom of the house, Shattuck performed oral sex on the boy, charging documents state. She offered to have sex with him, police said, but the boy declined.

Police who interviewed the boy in September said he told them he had not seen Shattuck after that night.

Shattuck is the ex-wife of Mayo Shattuck III, a former Constellation Energy CEO, and was made a member of the Ravens cheerleading squad in 2005.

She has been free on $84,000 bond in the case.

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James Fisher writes for the The News Journal of Wilmington, Del.