ROCKVILLE, Md. (ABC7) — A Bethesda father believes a loophole in Maryland's criminal statute allowed an alleged molester to wiggle his way out of criminal charges.
The father, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explains his only daughter wanted to learn how to play the electric bass guitar. It was 2006. His daughter, now 29, was 17-years-old at the time. The father found a highly-rated music instructor in Wheaton. The male instructor was in his 50s and appeared kind, gracious and dedicated to his craft.
Nearly every Saturday for two years, the father drove his daughter to the instructor's modest one-story brick home. The instructor, who ABC7 is not naming, took the teen to a spare bedroom, which he had turned into a soundproof music studio. Each lesson went for one hour.
The father would relax on the sofa in the adjacent living room, reading magazines, watching television and occasionally napping. Not once did he suspect a sliver of impropriety.
"This was a man I welcomed into my home, we fed him, we went to his concerts at area restaurants and the zoo," the father told ABC7 during a concealed identity interview. "I paid him $50 for 80 lessons, that's $4,000, and he was doing terrible things behind my back."
In August 2008, the girl, then 18, stopped taking the private music lessons and enrolled at Montgomery College. The separation wasn't hostile or unfriendly; the arrangement had simply run its course...
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