BOSTON —

A former Boston police sergeant who is facing several criminal charges, including four counts of rape of a child, is scheduled to appear in court Friday.

Paul Downey, who was arrested in June, allegedly met a 14-year-old boy on March 26 on the Grindr dating app.

After a conversation with the teen moved to the social media app Snapchat, the two discussed the boy performing a sexual act for $30, leading to a meetup in a parking lot near the South Bay mall, officials said.

Something similar happened on May 11 with the same teen, who was offered $80 for another meetup involving sexual intercourse near the same parking lot near the South Bay mall, the district attorney's office confirmed.

An investigation into the alleged events confirmed Snapchat records that matched a username u

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