Dr. Peter Rice Arrested in Sex Sting … Says He Was Conducting Research on STDs

I do not think that health insurance pays for this …

Now here is a great excuse to use when a doctor gets nabbed trying to solicit sex from an assumed patient. Of course it usually does not work when one’s solicits sex from an undercover police officer. Dr Peter Rice at UMass Memorial Medical Center has been charged with soliciting sex from an undercover Worcester, MA police officer who was posing as a prostitute.  It was all for research, really it was …

But Dr. Peter Rice said he is not guilty and was only “gathering information” when he was arrested Saturday. He told the Telegram & Gazette that he is a specialist in infectious diseases and researches sexually transmitted diseases.

Rice offered the undercover female officer $40 for sex, police said. His arrest came as part a two-day prostitution sweep in the Main South section of the city.