QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - A 20-year-old Quincy man has been arrested in connection with a series of incidents in Quincy involving teenagers who said they were approached by a strange man and offered sex for money, police announced Monday night.
Benjamin Chen, 20, of Quincy, turned himself over to police and was arrested on charges including enticing a minor, accosting a person of the opposite sex, and soliciting sex for a fee, according to the Quincy Police Department. He is expected to be arraigned Tuesday.
Police say Chen turned himself in after seeing news reports detailing the search for a suspect.
His arrest comes after a woman told 7NEWS a man drove up to her 13-year-old daughter near a park at the Germantown neighborhood last Saturday while she was with two friends, and offered her money for sex, starting at $50 and going up to $500.
Tina, who doesn’t want her last name used, says her 13-year-old daughter and two of her girlfriends were on their way to play basketball in the Germantown neighborhood of Quincy when a man in a car offered them money for sex.
Just a few days after this terrifying encounter, the mother claims it happened again in the same area.
After learning that Chen turned himself in, Tina told 7NEW she was “very happy.”
“I feel a little bit safer for these kids,” she said.
This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.
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