A UW-Madison professor arrested last week while allegedly trying to meet a 14-year-old Greendale boy for sex admitted sending the boy nude pictures of himself over the Internet, but maintained he didn’t intend to have sex with the boy.
Lewis Keith Cohen, a 59-year-old professor of comparative literature, was formally charged Tuesday with using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and child enticement. Both counts carry maximum sentences of 25 years in prison.