Md. college swim coach charged with exchanging nude photos with minor
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Version 0 of 1. The head swim coach at a Maryland university has been arrested on charges that he exchanged nude photographs with a child he met on the Internet. Andre Rudolph Barbins, 45, of Solomons in Calvert County, was arrested Friday and is no longer coaching the swim team at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. [Local school volunteer contacted children for porn via Kik, with numerous victims] The university said in a statement Tuesday that an assistant coach has taken on Barbins’s role at the college. It declined to comment further, except to say that it was working with investigators to protect students’ safety. The victim in the case was a minor whom Barbins only had contact with online, not someone he coached, Maryland State Police Cpl. DaVaughn Parker said. [A 13-year-old’s online fantasies turned fatal] Parker said that the girl’s parents found that she had been chatting with Barbins online and contacted police. Barbins was charged with one count of child pornography, for instructing the girl to take lewd photos of herself and send them to him, and one count of displaying obscene matter to a minor, for sending photographs of himself back to the girl, Parker said. Related: Parents are clueless about messaging apps, but marketers and predators aren’t |