I'm sure many people will be pleased with the term "computer hacker" to describe someone with an AOL account getting stung...(those insidious hackers will stop at nothing...) BOSTON (Reuter) - A Vermont man who used a computer online service to try to hire someone to rape and sexually mutilate his wife unknowingly employed a policeman for the job, the Massashusetts Attorney General's office said Thursday. Harold Clarkson, 50, was charged with two counts of hiring someone to commit kidnapping and sexual assault. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, police said. Clarkson, identifying himself on the America Online service as ``Trudy21'', a 21-year-old woman from North Carolina, said he wanted to hire someone to kipnap his sister, beat her with a baseball bat, rape her with a champagne bottle and commit other acts, a spokesman for Attorney General Scott Harshbarger said. Massachusetts State Police Lt. Andrew Palombo, who works for the Attorney General's Office and routinely investigates on-line services, was also logged onto America Online while off-duty. Palombo contacted America Online and discovered 'Trudy21' was Clarkson and the victim was his wife, police said. Palombo then posed as a woman on the online service and contacted Clarkson, who described a variety of sexual torture practices that he would like to perform on a woman, said Robert Sikellis, the Massachusetts attorney general's chief of special investigations. Palombo arranged for a woman undercover police officer to meet Clarkson in Rutland, Vermont, where he showed up with handcuffs, rope, a blindfold and other devices and was arrested Wednesday, he said.