A UW-Madison professor was arrested this week in suburban Milwaukee, accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
Lewis Keith Cohen, 59, a professor in the department of comparative literature, was being held Thursday in the Milwaukee County Jail on two tentative felony charges of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and one tentative felony charge of exposing a child to harmful materials, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department. His cash bail was $20,000.