Man Accused Of Trying To Lure Teen For Sex
Detective Responds To Man's Craigslist Posting
POSTED: 5:33 pm EST January 29, 2007
UPDATED: 8:30 am EST January 30, 2007
AUBURN, Mass. -- An Uxbridge man was arrested after he allegedly tried to lure a teenager for sex on an online community listings page.
NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that Fred Newhall III, a father of two, is accused of trying to lure what he thought was a 15-year-old high school student for sex on Craigslist.org.
Newhall, 41, has been married for 15 years and is the father of two young children. Police said the Uxbridge man has never been in trouble with the law before.
Newhall was charged with inducing a minor into prostitution and attempting to commit rape of a child.
Newhall admitted advertising on Craigslist.org for a teenage house cleaner. Posing as a 15-year-old girl named Sara Underwood, Auburn Police Detective James Lyman responded to the ad, and the two messaged back and forth.
"He gave me a price list. If you clean, you get this. If there's light touching, that's how much you get. Right up to full contact being $500 a day," Lyman said.
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