Unregistered Sex Offender Subject of Investigation at a Dundalk Elementary School

A convicted sex offender pled guilty Wednesday in federal court for failing to register in Maryland after moving to Dundalk last summer.

Steven Leon Mack, 30, of the 7900 block of St. Claire Lane in Dundalk, was initially convicted in 2002 in New York for second-degree rape. He pled guilty for failing to register in Maryland as a sex offender after arriving in the state sometime after last July. Mack was convicted of having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl when he was 22 years old.

Upon his release from prison, Mack had moved to South Carolina, where he registered as a sex offender until May 5, 2010. On December 22, 2010, Baltimore County police officers investigating complaints that an adult male was harassing minors at a Dundalk elementary school identified Mack as the subject of the complaints. Mack admitted that he had failed to update his registration when he moved to Maryland.

According to the plea agreement, Mack invited minors to his residence, offering to sell pornography to one or more minor males. He also offered candy to one or more minor females, following one or more girls as they walked from school. A school representative notified the Baltimore County Police Department, advising that the same adult male—later identified as Mack—also picked up the same minor child at school every day.

Mack faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a minimum of five years, and up to a lifetime of supervised release. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. scheduled Mack’s sentencing for July 12.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse, which the Department of Justice launched in May 2006. United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the U.S. Marshals Service for its work in the Mack case, as well as the Baltimore County Police Department and the Baltimore County State's Attorney’s Office for their work in the Mack investigation and prosecution.