A Brookline Probation Officer whose also a Parkway Little League umpire has been arrested for child pornography. Michael O'Reilly (MO) was arraigned today on charges of posing a child in a state of nudity, dissemination of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography. He posted just $5,000 bail and was released. His status with the Brookline District Court is not know at this time, but given the nature of the charges we suspect that he will be placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the case if he hasn't already.
According to a press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, MO is a probation officer for the Brookline District Court (https://www.mass.gov/locations/brookline-district-court) and an umpire for Parkway Little League in West Roxbury where he lives. They have not said if any of MO's victims are associated with Parkway Little League. Before releasing O'Reilly on just $5,000 bail Judge Kathleen Coffey ordered that MO stay away from and have no contact with any child under 18 and have GPS monitoring. We are not sure why the bail was so low, but we think his status as a probation officer probably had something to do with it. As a P.O. he knows better than most what child predators and former law enforcement face behind bars. The threat of doing time as a sexer and a cop should be enough to scare anyone out of skipping court or violating the terms of their release.
The press release (see PDF link above map) went on to say that the Boston Police Department had received a tip about an individual sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Their investigation led them to officer MO. Officers executed a search warrant on MO's house last week and seized items containing CSAM. The release concluded with boiler plate statements about how disgusting this is, how people like MO rely on their victims remaining silent, and urging anyone with any information to contact law enforcement.
According to public records, Michael Joseph O'Reilly is a 43 year old resident of West Roxbury, Massachusetts. His last known address is 7 Glenhaven Road. The DA's office and the news media have yet to publicly print MO's middle name so we did a public records search for people named Michael O'Reilly in West Roxbury where reports say this MO lives. We found three results for men named Michael O'Reilly currently living in West Roxbury. One of those is a 67 year old attorney also named Michael J. O'Reilly whose obviously not the same person since he is clearly not a probation officer and too old to be a little league umpire. We extend out sympathies to him since it must really suck to share your full name with a guy who just got arrested for sex crimes against children. That lawyer however appears to be listed as a possible first generation relative of the MO whose information we are posting here, so we suspect them of being father and son. The third entry appears to be duplicitous of the second entry. The only other MO whose name came up is someone whose middle name is Michael and has a more recent address outside or West Roxbury. Unless MO had his information removed from our background check service or the service missed a MO that recently moved to West Roxbury then we are pretty sure we have the right guy. We are exempting the address from our usual courtesy of censoring home addresses of law enforcement personnel because this cases involves formal charges being filed involving sex crimes against minors. We share the address to warn parents where not to let their kids go. Please do not use that information for any unlawful purpose.
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