Accused call girl married to county official enters program for first-time offenders

The wife of a Chester County department head charged with prostitution (the wife, not the official) has been accepted into a first-time offenders program that, if completed, would wipe clean her criminal record, according to reporter R. Jonathan Tuleya.

From Tuleya's story:

Theresa Atkins-Mattison, the 50-year-old spouse of Edward J. Atkins, Chester County's director of the Department of Emergency Services, was arrested in March after police said she allegedly attempted to trade sex for money with an undercover Philadelphia police officer inside a Center City hotel room.

The Paoli resident, known as Rachael Savage to her clients, was one of five call girls nabbed in the sex sting. They all had been reported to police for suspected illegal activity previously.

Atkins-Mattison was excused from attending a status hearing Tuesday in Philadelphia Community Court before Judge Georganne V. Daher, but the attorneys involved in the case were present to update the judge on her progress in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) program.

ARD is pre-trial intervention for first-time offenders. If they complete the program to the court's satisfaction, their criminal record is expunged.

Read more about the case in The Mercury.