LAUREL, Md. -- Police dropped rape charges against an 18-year-old student at a Laurel private school for children with disabilities after his accuser admitted the sex was consensual.
Howard County Police arrested John Rivers Jr., of Hyattsville, Sunday at his home and charged him with raping and assaulting a 15-year-old girl on March 6 in a stairwell at The Phillips School.
In interviews with detectives, the girl confessed that she agreed to have sex with Rivers, police said Friday. Rivers was to be released from the Howard County Detention Center Friday evening.
The charges were filed after the girl told a school administrator she was injured. She was taken to an area hospital for treatment of injuries from her stairwell encounter with Rivers. That's when police received the report of a rape.
