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UW professor faces sex charges

A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is being held on a $20,000 bond after being arrested in a Milwaukee suburb while allegedly trying to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex.

Lewis Keith Cohen, a professor of comparative literature, was arrested Tuesday and is being held on tentative charges of two counts of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and one count of exposing a child to harmful materials.