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May 17, 2006

Ex-Mass. selectman nabbed on child-sex charge

EAST PROVIDENCE -- A former Massachusetts town selectman was arrested this morning for arranging on the Internet to "engage in sexual activities" with an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl, according to the state police.

William J. Christensen, 59, of 17 Granuaile Road, Southborough, Mass., was arrested as he got out of his car at an East Providence apartment complex where police said he had set up a meeting with the "girl" this morning.

He was charged with indecent solicitation of a child, a felony punishable by no less than five years in prison.

The State Police Computer Crimes Unit learned last Friday that someone, using a Yahoo screen name, was on the Internet "enticing minor children to meet with him to engage in sexual activities," according to the state police. A Rhode Island state police officer then posed as a 15-year-old girl and had sexually explicit online conversations with the man, who police say was Christensen.

Christensen served on the Southborough Board of Selectman for 12 years, most recently as its chairman. He lost his seat in an election last week.

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