Scott Polacek@@ScottPolacekIncluded Columnist IVMarch 6, 2024
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Previous college track and field coach Steve Waithe was sentenced to 5 years in jail Wednesday due to the fact that he scammed ladies, a few of whom were the professional athletes he coached, into sending him naked pictures, per Michael Casey of the Associated Press.
Casey kept in mind Waithe utilized sham social networks and email accounts to deceive the females and pleaded guilty in 2023 to 12 counts of wire scams.
He likewise pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to dedicate computer system scams, one count of computer system scams and to cyberstalking among his victims.
Waithe formerly coached at Northeastern University in Boston, Penn State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Tennessee and Concordia University Chicago.
District attorneys, who stated he got photos from 50 victims and tried to do so from an extra 72, required him to get an 84-month sentence, which would have consisted of the 17 months he served because his arrest. They likewise required 36 months of monitored release.
“He wanted to breach university guidelines,” among his victims who spoke at the sentencing stated. “He wanted to break conditions of release. I do not think even after he goes out he will stop. I’m truthfully pleading that you provide him as much time as possible.”
Waithe’s representation required the sentence to be 27 to 33 months and after that include 3 years of probation.
Victoria Hernandez of U.S.A. Today kept in mind the criminal grievance exposed Northeastern started a Title IX examination into the coach after it got problems of unwanted sexual advances.
The school dismissed him following the examination, ending a period that lasted from October 2018 to February 2019.
Casey detailed a few of the coach’s actions when he was at Northeastern as a track coach that included him requesting cellular phones from student-athletes to allegedly movie them at practice just to covertly send himself specific photos if they were saved money on the phones.
What’s more, he developed the female personalities of “Katie Janovich” and “Kathryn Svoboda” and requested for photos for “professional athlete research study” and “body advancement.”
District attorneys likewise stated he utilized sham social networks accounts to connect to the ladies under the guise of assistance by informing them jeopardizing pictures were found and more were required to eliminate them through “reverse image searches.”
Casey kept in mind Waithe likewise signed up with sites that would assist him trade the photos with other users.
