text: CLOSE Molly Shattuck, a former Ravens cheerleader and estranged wife of a prominent energy corporation president, has been charged with having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy in Delaware over the Labor Day weekend, police said. 
   
   Molly Shattuck (Photo: Submitted) 
   
   Well-known, former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck's Instagram-fueled attraction to a 15-year-old boy led to her arrest Wednesday and charges of third-degree rape and unlawful sexual conduct, according to Delaware State Police. 
   
   The exchange was further prompted by the woman's son who encouraged the victim to text his mother because "she is obsessed with you," police said in court documents. 
   
   Shattuck, 47, estranged wife of former Constellation Energy CEO Mayo Shattuck III, was indicted Monday by a Sussex County grand jury on two counts of third-degree rape, four counts of unlawful sexual contact and three counts of providing alcohol to minors, said Sgt. Paul Shavack. 
   
   The relationship began at the end of May when Shattuck spotted photos of the teen on Instagram and posted a comment about them, according to information contained in an application for a search warrant. 
   
   After the victim replied thank you in a private message through Instagram, Shattuck's son sent the victim his mother's cell phone number, saying, "You should text my Mom, she is obsessed with you," according to court records. 
   
   Molly Shattuck rented this house on Dukes Road Labor Day weekend in Bethany Beach for her children and their friends. (Photo: Google) 
   
   The budding friendship continued through the summer and progressed from chats about daily life to provocative talk and text messages into trysts in the rear seat of Shattuck's Cadillac Escalade where the two would make out and grope each other, court records said. 
   
   It culminated Labor Day weekend in Bethany Beach where Shattuck had rented a house on Dukes Road for her children and their friends, who also included the victim. She provided beer to at least three of the minors and engaged in some sexual acts with the 15-year-old victim, unbeknownst to the other children in the house, police said. 
   
   On Sept. 26, state police detectives were contacted by police in Baltimore County, Maryland who reported a 15-year-old boy had been involved in an inappropriate relationship with a woman, later identified as Shattuck, in Delaware's jurisdiction, Shavack said. 
   
   An affidavit for a search warrant of Shattuck's Blythewood Road residence obtained by The News Journal outlines how the two first met in late June while the teen was visiting a friend in her neighborhood. That meeting ended with a hug but no other physical contact, court records said. 
   
   The seduction continued from there to meetings in the Escalade at an AMC movie theater in Columbia, Maryland, and at a parking lot at a middle school in Mount Airy, Maryland. 
   
   Through the month of July, while the teen attended summer school, Shattuck picked him up for lunch "five or six times" and drove to a parking garage where they would "talk and eat and then get in the back of the car and kiss or make out," police said in court records. During one of these incidents, Shattuck allegedly touched the teen's penis. 
   
   "Between their encounters, Shattuck asked for pictures via text message" and he would send pictures of himself shirtless and one in his underwear, the victim told police. 
   
   Over Labor Day weekend, she allegedly performed oral sex on the victim while outside the home and later invited him to her bedroom where they each stripped down to their underwear and fondled each other, the documents show. 
   
   The victim told police Shattuck had offered to have sex with him, but he "decided to leave at that point and go back to the rooftop." 
   
   Later that morning, the victim's father picked him up and took him home. 
   
   In mid-September, Shattuck sent the teen pictures through Instagram of him taken at the beach over the Labor Day weekend with the other teenage house guests. 
   
   During the Sept. 28 interview with police, the teen told investigators he had not seen or talked to Shattuck since Labor Day. 
   
   The search warrant, executed October 1, led investigators to seize Shattuck's cell phone, computing and storage devices and external drives pertinent to the investigation. Detectives also specifically sought a pink lace bra and panties that the victim described her as wearing in the bedroom of her beach house. 
   
   According to the nine-count indictment, filed in Sussex County Superior Court, it states the sexual incident occurred Aug. 31 in Delaware where Shattuck and the teen exchanged in foreplay. Eventually, according to a police account in the search warrant, Shattuck said to the teen that if he wanted to have sex, she would. 
   
   Shattuck is also accused of purchasing alcohol for the boy and two other teens, all younger than 21. 
   
   Shattuck's attorneys would not discuss the charges after her arraignment. 
   
   "This is a difficult situation for everyone involved," one of her lawyers, Michelle Lipkowitz, said outside the courthouse. "That's all we have today." 
   
   Earlier this year, Shattuck released a book entitled, "Molly Shattuck Vibrant Living," a back-to-basics approach to embracing lifestyle changes and better health. She is well-known in Baltimore for her marriage to Mayo Shattuck III and her stint as the NFL's oldest cheerleader. She also participated in the reality show Secret Millionaire in 2008. 
   
   She is a prolific contributor to political candidates – one of the few political donors to give $5,000 to both the Obama and Romney campaigns in 2012. She also gave $5,000 to a Romney joint fundraising committee and $15,000 to an Obama joint committee. Federal Election Commission records note her occupation as "homemaker," "housewife," "spouse," and "self-employed." 
   
   In an unpublished 2012 interview with USA Today, Shattuck said she used the contributions to pitch her idea of "solutions-oriented presidential campaigns." Just like beauty pageant winners use their reign to bring awareness of a cause, Shattuck proposed that presidential candidates use part of their campaign war chests to sponsor a charity. 
   
   "If you think of all this money that's put into campaigns, none of it solves any problems," she said. "I thought about the idea for a long time." She described herself as a "very moderate Republican" and said she once worked on Capitol Hill for Rep. Doug Walgren, D-Pa. 
   
   In a society profile in The Baltimore Sun in March, Shattuck said there had been "no animosity" in her split with her husband, and said they still spent time together with their children. 
   
   "We are in a good place. Neither of us is in a serious relationship with another person," she told the Sun. "Who knows? Maybe we'll get back together someday." 
   
   Shattuck was released Wednesday following her arraignment after posting $84,000 secured bail. 
   
   Staff reporter Melissa Nann Burke and USA Today reporter Gregory Korte contributed to this story. Contact Terri Sanginiti at (302) 324-2771 or tsanginiti@delawareonline.com. Contact James Fisher at (302) 983-6772, on Twitter@JamesFisherTNJ or jfisher@delawareonline.com. 
   
   Read or Share this story: http://delonline.us/1qpoNZi ||||| Molly Shattuck, the former Ravens cheerleader who was married to onetime Constellation Energy CEO Mayo A. Shattuck III, was arrested Wednesday and charged with third-degree rape and unlawful sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy, Delaware State Police said. 
   
   The 47-year-old mother of three, who has been active in local charities such as the United Way of Central Maryland and the Baltimore School for the Arts, is accused of giving alcohol to the boy, who is her son's classmate, and performing oral sex on him at a Delaware beach house over the Labor Day weekend, according to an affidavit for a search warrant filed in Baltimore County District Court. 
   
   Shattuck was arraigned Wednesday morning in Sussex County Superior Court in Georgetown, Del. She pleaded not guilty and was released on $84,000 bond — on the condition that she have no contact with the alleged victim or other minors except her own children, according to the Delaware attorney general's office. She was also required to turn in her passport, officials said. 
   
   "She is maintaining her innocence," said Shattuck's defense lawyer, Eugene Maurer, of Wilmington, Del. "She is obviously quite distraught." Shattuck is due back in court Dec. 3 for a case review, Maurer said. 
   
   A Delaware grand jury handed up a nine-count indictment against Shattuck on Monday, and it was unsealed Wednesday. She was charged with two counts of third-degree rape, which carries a potential sentence of two to 25 years in prison on each count; four counts of unlawful sexual contact in the second degree, with a penalty of up to three years in prison, and three counts of providing alcohol to a minor, which carries a fine of $100 to $500 and could lead to an order of community service or imprisonment of up to 60 days. 
   
   The news that Molly Shattuck, the former Ravens cheerleader and ex-wife of a prominent businessman, was charged in Delaware with third-degree rape and unlawful sexual contact with a teenage boy has instantly spread across the country and even overseas on sites in England and Australia. 
   
   According to the affidavit, the boy — a student at the McDonogh School — told police that Shattuck began a flirtation with him on the social networking site Instagram in May. 
   
   The Baltimore Sun does not name alleged victims of sexual crimes. 
   
   The McDonogh School issued a statement Wednesday saying that administrators contacted police in late September as soon as they learned of allegations involving a student and a parent of another student. 
   
   "The safety and well-being of our students is our greatest priority at all times," Headmaster Charles W. Britton wrote to parents of McDonogh students in an email Wednesday. The letter said the parent — who was not named — had been banned from campus. 
   
   Shattuck, a self-styled fitness and lifestyle guru who was the oldest cheerleader in the history of the NFL, began sending provocative messages to the boy in the spring saying, "we would have fun together," according to the affidavit. 
   
   The two had sexual contact in the parking lot of a Columbia movie theater, the affidavit said, and also drove to a middle school parking lot where they kissed in the back seat of Shattuck's Cadillac Escalade. 
   
   In the summer, she would pick up the boy during his lunch breaks from a class and drive him to the parking garage of the T. Rowe Price building in Owings Mills where they would "get in the back of the car and kiss or 'make out,'" according to the affidavit. 
   
   Over Labor Day weekend, the boy joined Shattuck and her three children — who range in age from 11 to 15 — and their friends at a Bethany Beach rental home, according to the affidavit. The boy, who had traveled to the beach separately, asked his father for permission to spend the night with Shattuck's family. Shattuck, documents say, assured the boy's father that "there was no alcohol or drugs at the residence and she was the only adult." 
   
   However, she shared wine with the alleged victim while he played "music and games" with the other boys, according to the affidavit. Around 2 a.m., Shattuck left the younger children asleep in the rental home and took the alleged victim and other teenagers to a liquor store and purchased Miller Lite and Bud Light beer for them, the document states. 
   
   Back at the house, Shattuck asked the alleged victim to help her walk the dog. Once they got outside, she began kissing and fondling him, then performed oral sex on him, according to the affidavit. The boy then went up to a rooftop deck, where he and the other teens drank alcohol. 
   
   Shattuck then "came up and said that [the alleged victim] needs to go to bed," according to the affidavit. 
   
   The boy then went into Shattuck's bedroom, where she stripped to her underwear, performed oral sex on him again and told him she would be willing to have intercourse, the affidavit states. He decided to leave the bedroom. The boy's father picked him up in the morning, and the boy has not had contact with Shattuck since the incident, according to the affidavit. 
   
   According to the letter from the headmaster of the McDonogh School, he learned of allegations against a parent on Sept. 24. Britton said in the letter that he immediately reported the allegations to Baltimore County police. 
   
   "I want you to know that the parent has been prohibited from entering McDonogh's campus," he wrote, "and additional security measures have been in place to assure the safety of our students since the incident was reported." 
   
   Delaware authorities said in a statement that Baltimore County police contacted them Sept. 26 to report that the 15-year-old had said he had an inappropriate relationship with a woman later identified as Shattuck. 
   
   Delaware State Police searched Shattuck's North Baltimore home Oct. 1, seizing items they identified as "pertinent to the investigation." The affidavit gave police permission to seize Shattuck's cellphone, computers and other electronic devices as well as the "pink lace bra and underwear" that the alleged victim said Shattuck wore at the beach house. 
   
   Howard County police said Wednesday that the alleged incident at the Columbia movie theater was not reported to authorities at the time. 
   
   Police are investigating the allegations, said Howard police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn. 
   
   Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott D. Shellenberger said his office had "reviewed the facts and the circumstances of the allegations" but was deferring prosecution due to the "seriousness of the allegations in Delaware." 
   
   "Should additional facts come to light or circumstances change in the case in Delaware, this decision will be revisited," Shellenberger said. 
   
   A spokeswoman with the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore said Shattuck had not been charged by that agency. The agency will neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation, she said.
target: – Molly Shattuck, estranged wife of Constellation Energy CEO Mayo A. Shattuck III and a lifestyle guru who was once the oldest cheerleader in the NFL, was arrested in Delaware yesterday and charged with third-degree rape, unlawful sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy, and providing alcohol to minors, reports the News Journal. Shattuck, due back in court in December, pleaded not guilty and was released on $84,000 bail, reports the Baltimore Sun. She is the mother of three, the oldest of whom is a classmate of the alleged victim. Police outline the alleged timeline in court documents: They say that Shattuck commented on photos of the teen on Instagram in May; Shattuck's son then reportedly gave the boy his mom's cell phone number and prodded him to text her, saying "she is obsessed with you." The former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader later allegedly had make-out sessions with the teen in the back of her Cadillac Escalade, and invited him (along with her children and their friends) to her beach rental over Labor Day, where she allegedly performed oral sex on him. Police say the teen told them that Shattuck also offered him sex that weekend, but he "decided to leave at that point and go back to the rooftop."