Crime & Safety

Report: Gaithersburg Resident Pleads Guilty In Child Sex Sting

Scott Richard Swirling was the head of a non-profit.

Gaithersburg resident and former non-profit head Scott Richard Swirling pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday to charges stemming from a child-sex sting, The Washington Examiner reports.

Swirling pleaded guilty to traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minorand faces a maximum sentence of 30 years as well as a fine of up to $250,000, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

Swirling, 62, previously served as the executive director of the American School Counselor Association and the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.

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Swirling was charged in January after he was caught in a sting run by a task force of FBI agents and Washington, DC police officers for traveling from Maryland to Washington for purposes of engaging in sexual activity with a 12-year-old girl, according to previous reports.

Read more on The Washington Examiner.

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