Maryland Judge to Resign One Year After Incident with Boyfriend, Felon

Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Audrey Creighton announced Tuesday her plan to resign from the bench — according to a report by WTOP — a little more than a year after she reported she was assaulted and kidnapped by a sometime live-in boyfriend with a history of violence.

Creighton reportedly told Montgomery County Circuit Court Administrative Judge John Debelius this week of her upcoming resignation. WTOP has reported she will take leave she’s accrued before officially resigning on Friday, July 3.

In May 2014, Creighton reported to authorities she had been kidnapped and assaulted by then-25-year-old Rickey Joshua Senning of Germantown, with whom Creighton shared a romantic relationship.

Prosecutors told Patch at the time of the incident that Creighton was able to get out of the vehicle when Senning crashed into the Harris Teeter store on Darnestown Road in Germantown.

Senning fled to Florida before he was arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department. He was later indicted on charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, three counts of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, theft, auto theft, driving under the influence and driving while impaired.

Creighton took leave immediately following the incident, then returned to the bench to hear civil cases, according to the WTOP report.

That report also states the Maryland Judicial Disabilities Commission has been looking into a potential judicial misconduct case involving Creighton, and it remains to be seen how her resignation may impact that investigation.

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