Andrew James Peters (April 3, 1872 – June 26, 1938) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Boston and as a member of the United States House of Representatives.

[6] In 1914, Peters was appointed to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under William Gibbs McAdoo in the first administration of President Woodrow Wilson.

A student of the Rogers Hall School in Lowell, Massachusetts, she spent summers with the Peters.

He began to sexually abuse her when she was age 11,[8] dosing her with ether, reading to her from Havelock Ellis's books about sex, and taking her to hotels.

When her diaries were found, the story came out,[10] and her stepfather produced evidence that Peters paid him and Helen to keep quiet.