Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner was back inside city hall Monday, facing his colleagues and neighbors for the first time since he was publicly accused of paying for sex at a high-end brothel.

Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner paid for sex at a high-end multistate brothel ring at least 13 times over the course of a roughly seven-month period between January and September of 2023, according to a Cambridge police report.

Cambridge City Councilor and former president of the state’s teachers union Paul Toner said he was ashamed of his ensnarement in a massive brothel scandal and the charges pending before him for buying sex,