Crime & Safety
Capital: Sex Offender Guilty of Rape, Sexual Assault of Teens
The Capital is reporting that Broadneck resident James Mason III was found guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl he met online and sexually assaulting her 14-year-old friend.
The Capital is reporting today that Broadneck resident James Mason III entered an Alford plea in Circuit Court in Annapolis Thursday to second-degree rape and third-degree sex offense.
According to the story by Heather Rawlyk, Mason befriended a 13-year-old victim on MySpace last June, picked her, her 14-year-old sister and two of her friends up in Dundalk, picked up alcohol and drove them to a friend's home on St. Margaret's Drive in Cape St. Claire. He was charged with sexually assaulting the 13-year-old girl later in the parking lot of the Whitehall McDonald's and her 14-year-old friend that night at the Cape St. Claire home.
He will be sentenced in mid-August. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
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