Sex For Fee Charges Do Not Issue After Clerk Magistrate Hearing

The defendant is a successful computer programmer who owns a large Massachusetts based company. On June 28, 2017 members of the Southern Middlesex Vice Task Force set up a sting operation in the Woburn area. They set up an online advertisement soliciting money for sexual services. The undercover officer conducting the operation arranged a date with our client. The two agreed to meet at a hotel room that had secretly been rented by the police. The defendant arrived and was immediately met by police officers. During questioning the defendant admitted that he had negotiated sexual services for a fee over the internet and the telephone. He surrendered his phone to the police and permitted them to scroll through messages. The phone corroborated information obtained over the internet and the defendant was released. A summons for a clerk magistrate hearing issued charging him with sex for a fee under G.L. c. 272 Section 53A. Attorney Neyman was hired. He convinced the clerk magistrate not to issue the complaint.

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