The state Board of Public Works must still approve the state’s share of the settlement payment. According to an online agenda, the matter will be considered at the board’s Oct. 26 meeting.
The settlement was first announced last month, days before the case was set to go to trial in U.S. District Court. But the settlement amount was not made public.
Both women told police they had blacked out or passed out, and were sexually assaulted by the men. The men have said the acts were consensual. But before officials could deliver the criminal summonses, Shellenberger dispatched police officers to the woman’s home, according to her legal filing. Once there, they spoke with her grandmother and stated that she risked facing criminal charges of her own if she pursued the charges against the men. Ultimately, prosecutors dropped the charges against the men.The woman’s account was included in a class-action lawsuit filed by several women against Baltimore County and UMBC. But in 2020 U.S.