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BOSTON A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves, prosecutors said.
Steve Waithe, 28, of Chicago, is accused of creating fake social media accounts to contact track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed to have found online.
Starting in at least February 2020, Waithe would send pictures he had obtained of the victims and try to persuade them to send more explicit photos to him so he could “reverse image search,” authorities said in court documents.
Waithe is accused of creating fake social media accounts to contact track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed to have found online. Pixabay
BOSTON: A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves, prosecutors said.
Steve Waithe, 28, of Chicago, is accused of creating fake social media accounts to contact track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed to have found online.
Who is Steve Waithe?
Waithe, from Chicago, Illinois, is a former track and field coach at various universities such as Penn State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Tennessee, and Concordia University Chicago. As per his charging documents, he worked as a track and field coach at Northeastern University in Boston from October 2018 to February 2019. His allegations are from his time at the university where he reportedly requested to use the cellphone of female athletes under the pretense of filming their form at practice and at meets. The news release further reports that she was also at times observed scrolling through the female athlete s phones.
Ex-Track And Field Coach Allegedly Tricks Students Into Sending Nude Photos
Steve Waithe is accused of contacting track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed he found online.
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BOSTON (AP) A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves, prosecutors said.
Steve Waithe, 28, of Chicago, is accused of creating fake social media accounts to contact track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed to have found online.
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