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[Professor]

Monday, Aug. 19, 2002
Couple Arrested for Sex in Cathedral




NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Virginia couple was arraigned on
Friday after they were arrested for allegedly having sex in a
vestibule of St. Patrick's Cathedral while parishioners
worshiped nearby.

Loretta Lynn Harper, 35, of Alexandria, and her boyfriend,
Brian Florence, 37, of Quantico, were charged with obscenity in
the third degree and public lewdness.

Another man, Paul Mercurio, 42, of New York, who allegedly
engaged in a live radio commentary on the sex act, also was
arraigned on a charge of acting in concert with the couple.

The three were arrested on Thursday.

The couple had entered a radio contest of the WNEW
afternoon talk program, "Opie and Anthony," a police spokesman
said. As part of the live show, six couples were given a list
of 54 different high-risk locations at which to have sex in the
city, including St. Patrick's on Fifth Avenue, and nearby
Rockefeller Center.

An usher observed the couple and also saw Mercurio on his
cell phone allegedly relaying the stunt back to the radio
station, where he worked as a field producer, the police
spokesman said.

Joe Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York,
called the incident, "Disgusting."