Towson’s Maureen Mead Charged With Felony in Connection With Video Recording

Wow – “Agree with Mom” you are really going to go there? Sounds to me like you may have more of a personal interest in defending this situation vs actually looking at the facts. I too agree that the recording was probably intended to hear what the swimmers were saying and not to capture any images but that does not excuse the fact that she committed a felony. After so many previous swimmers and parents have come out talking about the abuse they have experienced over the past 10 years, I am sure there will be a lot more that will come out before this is done. And as far as being a ‘great coach’ is concerned, I wouldn’t say a ‘great coach’ would be so worried about what her swimmers were saying that they would commit a felony in order to find out what was going on vs just talking to them – and remember every swimmer on that team was hand picked by the coaching staff, so if it’s just 10 years of a bad group of swimmers (which I don’t believe), that really doesn’t support what a ‘great coach’ is either

Maureen had absolutely no right to record anyone in the locker room. College is hard enough, kids are away from home and having something like this happen is an awful thing. Community service is not enough of a punishment imo. Other coaches, teachers, administrators need to learn from this: that no matter what the reasons may be, it is NEVER okay to record students (some may even be minors, since some freshmen are still 17) in a locker room or dorm or other place where privacy is expected. If Maureen gets away with this with simple community service, others may think about doing the same (recording in a place like a locker room) since the only punishment would be community service (a slap on the wrist).

As for the person who said her daughter would still swim for Pat even after all this, that is scary that a young lady would be okay swimming for the husband of a coach who has recorded girls during changing time in the locker room.

I remember the Sandusky case….. so many people turned a blind eye to his actions and the result? Many young people’s lives destroyed. I do not know Maureen Mead’s intentions/reasons/motives for recording the girls while changing in the locker room, but I do feel that such actions should not go unpunished because if we allow this kind of thing, what message would we send to other coaches and teachers out there? That it’s okay to video tape our kids in a locker room situation just because the coaches feel is the right thing to do? No, it would open a pandora box with potentially ugly consequences. There have been cases of law abiding citizens, who were great community volunteers, had great family lives etc, who turned out to be just awful people, but it took innocent young people getting hurt before these “law abiding citizens” were caught and stopped. Swim/Dive coaches are in a position of power, the swimmers/divers want to swim/dive in college and some have aspirations of doing so beyond college…. what Maureen did is a great betrayal of those swimmers/divers’ trust. What would Maureen do next if she feels she can get away with what she did? She needs to face the consequence of her actions, and I don’t care what her motives were: news reports say the videos included naked girls in the locker room – that cannot and should not be justified or forgiven, it is a crime and as such it should be treated. News reports, in the comment sections, state that for a while, team members did not know how Maureen and Pat knew information they had not told anyone but just discussed among themselves….. this implies that this may not have been the first time Maureen may have done this…..but this time she got caught. Law abiding citizens may be doing wrong things for a while and still be considered good people because they had not been caught yet. Maureen got caught and must face the consequences of her very illegal actions.