Lynners ran Craigslist sex business from home, police say

LYNN – Officers with the Lynn Special Investigations arrested a Lynn woman Tuesday night after she had allegedly been performing sexual acts for money in her apartment while a young girl sat in an adjacent room.Tara Victoria Gaynor, 36, of 454 Chatham St. #2, was arraigned Wednesday in Lynn District Court on a charge of keeping a house of prostitution. She was released on $200 bail.According to an arrest report filed on Tuesday by Officer Ross Panacopoulos, Lynn Police had received an anonymous letter indicating that Gaynor and had just moved to the residence from her hometown of Salem and had been engaging in prostitution for some time.Officers executed a warrant Tuesday night and walked in to find a 4-year-old girl on the computer inside. The girl’s father, 43-year-old Anthony Quigley, told police he was aware of Gaynor’s activities and that she was “turning tricks to help him pay the bills.” He said he would take his daughter into her bedroom whenever Gaynor “had a date.”Gaynor admitted to police that she was exchanging sexual acts for money in the house, saying she did not have many customers, but that the ones she did have found out about her through a Craigslist advertisement set up by Quigley, who was summonsed to Lynn District Court, also for keeping a house of prostitution.Both Gaynor and Quigley denied being involved in a romantic relationship.?Anytime sometime uses a kid or puts a kid in a criminal environment that’s just wrong,” Lynn Police Chief Kevin Coppinger said following the arrest. “Parents need to be diligent and well-educated and to protect their children.”Panacopoulos filed an abuse and neglect claim with the Department of Children and Families in reference to the young girl being present in the home during the instances of prostitution. The DCF declined to comment on the incident.Taylor Provost can be reached at [email protected].