Former Northeastern track coach pleads guilty to scheme to obtain explicit photos of women



A former Northeastern University track and field coach pleaded guilty Tuesday to a multifaceted scheme to steal explicit photos from female athletes’ cellphones and trick other women into sending him nude and semi-nude photos of themselves, federal prosecutors said.

Steve Waithe, 30, was also accused of cyberstalking a Northeastern student and hacking into her Snapchat account, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a press release.
“Today, this former coach finally admitted to using his position of trust to betray his students when he extorted them for his own sexual gratification,” Jodi Cohen, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Division, said in a statement. “Make no mistake, predators come in many different forms, and Steve Waithe is no exception.”
Assistant US Attorney Adam Deitch said in court that Waithe's scheme victimized at least 50 women. Deitch said he plans to seek more than three years and 10 months in prison for Waithe.


Waithe worked at Northeastern from October 2018 to February 2019, when the university fired him, and had previously coached at Penn State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Tennessee and Concordia University Chicago.
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