MASSACHUSETTS
The Raw Story
By David Edwards
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
A high-ranking priest with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston was arrested over the weekend for soliciting a prostitute after police observed him paying for sex in a graveyard.
Lowell police were in a local neighborhood on Sunday conducting surveillance for prostitution and drug use when they observed a known prostitute riding in a black Chevrolet Equinox with 62-year-old Monsignor Arthur M. Coyle, according to The Boston Globe. Police followed the car to a cemetery where Coyle admitted to hiring the woman for sex, but insisted that “they hadn’t done anything yet.”
The 38-year-old woman told police that she had been paid $40 to perform sexual acts.
A Police report showed that Coyle was observed “well over a dozen different times” driving through areas frequented by prostitutes since last November. The report said that the priest would stop “every time he sees a single female or a known prostitute.”
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