An embattled former city councilman in Rhode Island who was arrested earlier this month after an officer found him asleep in his car with a crack pipe and a lighter in his hand is behind bars again, this time for allegedly sexually assaulting and molesting a child. Former Cranston City Councilman Matthew R. Reilly, a Republican, was taken into custody without incident on Thursday and charged with one count each of first-degree child molestation, second-degree child molestation, and enticement of a person under the age of 16, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a press release from the Cranston Police Department, officers with CPD and the North Kingstown Police Department on June 8 responded to Reilly’s home in the 20 block of Delwood Street where they executed an arrest warrant on the onetime local politician.
A republican councilman, his lawyer, and a little kid are on a crashing plane… There’s only two parachutes onboard. The lawyer says to the councilman “we’ve lived our lives. This young boy has his whole life ahead of him. It only makes sense to give him one of the parachutes.” The lawyer then immediately chanegs his mind and says, “actually…Fuck that kid!” To which the republican councilman replies, “Do you think we have time?”