State v. Malcolm Fluellyn, C-08-CR-23-000466
LA PLATA, MD—Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Monday, April 15, 2024, Charles County Circuit Court Judge H. James West sentenced Malcolm Fluellyn, 27, of Bryans Road, to 46 years in prison with all but 15 years suspended for two counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor and six counts of Fourth-Degree Sexual Offense. Fluellyn will be on supervised probation for five years upon release.
On February 26, 2024, Fluellyn entered a guilty plea to the aforementioned charges.
On February 10, 2023, a Charles County Sheriff’s Office School Resource Officer at General Smallwood Middle School reported that multiple students accused Fluellyn of inappropriately touching them.
An investigation of the allegations revealed that Fluellyn was working as a permanent substitute teacher at General Smallwood Middle School from December 2022 through February 2023. Fluellyn inappropriately touched the victims, some on numerous occasions, at the school while he worked there. Additionally, Fluellyn reached out to some of the victims on Instagram and made inappropriate sexual comments about their bodies.
The eight victims ranged in age between 12 and 13 years old. Fluellyn was immediately fired from the school when school officials learned of the assaults.
The Assistant State’s Attorney assigned to the case told the judge at sentencing, “Members of this community, and any community, should be able to send their children to school without having to worry that an adult will sexually prey on them in any way. It’s just not acceptable.”
Sentencing
- County 16 – Sexual Abuse of a Minor
- 25 years with all but 7 years suspended
- Count 21 – Sexual Abuse of a Minor
- 21 years with all but 8 years suspended
- Consecutive to Count 16
- Count 4, 29, 31, 33, 37, 39 – Fourth-Degree Sexual Offense
- 1 year
- Concurrent with each other and Count 16
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