Maryland Judge Kills Himself Moments Before Arrest for Child Sex Abuse

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Maryland judge killed himself on Friday morning, just as the feds showed up at his Henderson home to arrest him in a child sex abuse case.

Caroline County Circuit Judge Jonathan Newell, 50, had been on a leave of absence since July after becoming ensnared in an investigation over allegations that he had a hidden camera that captured naked images of boys in his bathroom. When FBI agents showed up at his door Friday morning to arrest him on a federal criminal complaint, they found him “suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. He was pronounced dead at 6:43 a.m.

“Maryland State Police will lead the investigation into the apparent suicide,” prosecutors said in a news release on Friday afternoon.

On Friday, Newell’s neighbor, Kimberly Keith, posted pictures to Facebook that appeared to show FBI agents stationed outside of the judge’s house demanding over a speaker for him to come out. She wrote that she heard sounds that she believed were gunshots, followed not long after by an ambulance.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maryland-judge-kills-himself-moments-184959698.html

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Good for him.

That was obviously the right thing to do.

[Bucky]

2. I hate to be "that guy" but..

Caroline is the “reddest” county on the mostly Republican Eastern Shore, and rivals Carroll County as the most Republican county in the state outside of Appalachian Western Maryland.

-- Wikipedia

Anyone care to guess his honor's party affiliation?

[Marcuse]

3. Q knew.

In 2016, Newell, a Republican, was appointed as a judge to Caroline County’s only circuit court by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. He held onto that role in 2018 and was serving a 15-year term before taking his life.

[dalton99a]

4. He ate some of the evidence

A boy that Newell took on a hunting trip on Hoopers Island discovered a hidden camera in the bathroom on July 23, and his parents reported it to police, which The Sun reported last week. When confronted by investigators, Newell is believed to have chewed up and swallowed a camera memory card, authorities said in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday.

The FBI interviewed several young males, who said they had been to the hunting lodge with Newell and that while in the bathroom, Newell checked their bodies for ticks, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in federal court and unsealed Friday following his death.

“At least two of the males stated they were naked when Newell checked them for ticks — one stated that he moved his own genitalia for Newell to look for ticks, and the other initially did not recall if Newell touched his genitalia, but later stated that Newell once or twice moved the minor’s genitalia to look for ticks,” FBI Special Agent Rachel Corn wrote in the criminal complaint.

Authorities searched Newell’s home, truck and judicial office, and located a hard drive in his den that they said contained numerous videos of young men showering. Newell can be seen on the footage setting the camera up, the FBI said. In one video clip, he can be seen searching a young man’s naked body for ticks.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-judge-newell-caroline-county-20210910-i45tq5k6hjawfmcrjne3hiv4ry-story.html

[malaise]

8. I read the Daily Beast Report

This man is a fucking perv

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. A Shawshank Warden Norton ending.

Typical repuke.

[winstars]

6. Thats what I said!!!!!!! Excellent

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Hey winstars, you have a DU Anniversary coming in a few weeks....20 years.

[winstars]

10. Time goes by very quickly

[Ishoutandscream2]

11. I'm there with you

I believe he should have stood trial in the courts. Not in public opinion.

[LanternWaste]

12. Sounds as though you're simply creating...

a self-fulfilling prophecy. Or at the least, hoping for one.

[Treefrog]

13. You've obviously missed all the grave dancing threads celebrating the death of Covid victims.

Nothing new here.