Former NCAA track coach pleads guilty after tricking women into sending him naked pictures

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A former college track and field coach admitted on Tuesday to tricking women into sending him naked photos of themselves.

Steve Waithe pleaded guilty in a Boston federal court to 12 counts of wire fraud, one count of cyberstalking, one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and one count of computer fraud, aiding and abetting.

While coaching at Northeastern, Waithe began an operation in which he would dupe women to send him proactive photos of themselves by saying he found such photos of them on the internet - he would claim he needed more photos in order to get them removed from the internet. 

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The Northeastern University logo is displayed on a sign at the Boston campus on Wednesday, August 2, 2006. (Ruby Arguilla-Tull/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He also fabricated at least two female personas to get more pictures, saying he needed them to "track the progress" of athletes, officials said.

The former coach also "cyberstalked one female student-athlete and orchestrated a scheme to gain unauthorized access to a victim’s Snapchat account," the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said.

View of hurdles at Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship on June 8, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

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Waithe was in charge of double-digit fake social media accounts, where he received "hundreds" of photos from "dozens of victims" who thought their photos were for legitimate research studies.

"Mr. Waithe’s conduct is