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Baltimore County High School Softball Coach Charged with Rape

Michael J. Pusateri has also been charged with sex abuse of a minor, assault and solicitation of child pornography

Gary Adornato

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The Baltimore County Police Department in Maryland have arrested, according to press release from the department on Tuesday, Michael J. Pusateri, a softball coach who served as a volunteer assistant with the Kenwood High school softball team.

Pusateri, who has also coached in the Parkville Recreation Council, as as with teams in Middle River and Overlea-Fullerton, has been charged with second-degree rape, assault, sex abuse of minor and soliciting child pornography. The arrest was made on Monday after police obtained a warrant. According to the arrest records, the crimes allegedly took place in July.

Pusateri, who is 59, has a bail hearing set for Tuesday afternoon. Authorities are also searching for other potential victims and ask anyone with more information to contact the Baltimore County Police Deparment Crimes Against Children Unit at 410-887-7720.

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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato is the Senior VP of Content for High School On SI and SBLive Sports. He began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University. In 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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