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Alleged crack-smoking city councilman who went viral is now accused of molesting a child (lawandcrime.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] [S] 22 points 4 months ago

More Republican family values brought to you by the former chairman of the Cranston Republican Party in Rhode Island.

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Step 1: Blame the crack Step 2: Check into some high priced rehab centre that's basically just a resort. Step 3:?????? Step 4: Profit!!!

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    [–] 45 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    what's even more fucked up than being a crack-smoking pedophile is voting for a crack-smoking pedophile just to own the libs

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    have you seen them libs these days though?? Besides, crack is all natural, a gift from Baby Jesus to humankind's best of the best. Praise Be

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    • [–] 37 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I’m beginning to think republicans aren’t to be trusted around children

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Call me crazy, but when they keep repeating think of the children I'm beginning to suspect they weren't thinking about their safety

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The conservatives/ Qanon were behind the bullshit front group "Save the Children" -

    I'm thinking that had a dual meaning, too, and not the one all the useful idiots they were trying to funnel into their bullshit conspiracy theories thought it meant...

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    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?"

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  • [+] -7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Check out this guy named Epstein, he was surrounded by perverts of bOtH pArTiEs

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

    ... and this is just one example of why Ds and Rs are down to 30% each, and Independents are now 40%

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    • [–] [S] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    The former chairman of the Cranston Republican "Family Values" Party in Rhode Island.

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    [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Who the fuck falls asleep while smoking crack?

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    • [+] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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    • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Leave Rob Ford alone!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    He was my first thought 😂 Didn't peg him as a pedo though so I was a little curious

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Well yeah, he's a member of the GOP.

    If we're looking for a challenge we need to find a member of the GOP that isn't a child molester.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Oh, a Republican.

    Interesting that it is not put in the headline, but halfway into the first paragraph.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah earlier this month in 2023, just FEI.

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    REILLY 2028.

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Former Cranston City Councilman Matthew R. Reilly, a Republican

    O.o

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    This is some iasip level bullshit.

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