A top official in
Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick's administration
is accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the steam room of
a Florida resort and has been placed on unpaid leave.
Carl Stanley
McGee, the assistant secretary for policy and planning, was
arrested December 28 after the suspected assault at the
Gasparilla Inn and Club in Boca Grande, according to
the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
McGee, 38, met
the boy, who police said is between 12 and 16 years old,
in a bathroom at the resort a day earlier where they engaged
in small talk, according to the police report.
The boy told
police he ran into McGee again the next day in the resort's
steam room. McGee sat next to him, removed his towel, rubbed
the boy's back and shoulders, and performed oral sex
on him, according to the police report.
The boy's father
contacted police, who spotted McGee at the resort using
a description from the boy.
McGee was freed
on $300,000 bond on December 30 and is to be arraigned
Monday on a charge of sexual assault on a victim over 12
using physical force, according to authorities.
Messages left for
McGee's lawyers were not returned Thursday, nor were
messages left at two numbers listed for McGee in Boston.
''Mr. McGee was
placed on unpaid administrative leave effective January 7
pending the outcome of the matter,'' Kofi Jones, a
spokeswoman for Secretary of Housing and Economic
Development Dan O'Connell, said in a statement.
McGee, who made
$115,000 as a state employee, worked at Boston law firms
before joining the administration. His marriage to John
Finley IV in November 2005 was featured in The New
York Times' vows column. (AP)
