BOSTON—A top official in Gov. Deval Patrick's administration has been placed on unpaid leave after being charged with sexually assaulting a boy in the steam room of a Florida resort.
Carl Stanley McGee, the assistant secretary for policy and planning, was arrested Dec. 28 after the alleged assault at the Gasparilla Inn and Club in Boca Grande, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
McGee, a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law School graduate, met the boy, who police said is between 12 and 16 years of age, in a bathroom at the resort a day earlier where they engaged in small talk, according to the police report.
The boy told police he ran into McGee again the next day in the resort's steam room. McGee sat next to him, removed his towel, rubbed the boy's back and shoulders and performed oral sex on him, according to the police report.
The boy's father contacted police, who spotted McGee at the resort based on a description from the boy.
The Gasparilla Inn & Club is a nearly century-old resort and golf course on the Gulf Coast between Fort Myers and Sarasota where rooms can run more than $400 per night, according to their Web site.
McGee was freed on $300,000 bond on Dec. 30 and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on a charge of sexual assault on a victim over 12 using physical force, according to authorities.
Messages left for McGee's Boston and Florida lawyers were not immediately returned Thursday, nor were messages left at two numbers listed for McGee in Boston.
McGee, 38, helped draft legislation advancing Patrick's plans to build three resort-style casinos in Massachusetts, fund life science initiatives and bring broadband Internet service to the entire state.
"Mr. McGee was placed on unpaid administrative leave effective January 7th pending the outcome of the matter," Kofi Jones, a spokeswoman for Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Dan O'Connell, said in a statement.
McGee, who made $115,000 as a state employee, worked at Boston law firms before joining the administration. His marriage to John Finley IV in November 2005 was featured in The 
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