Crime & Safety

Former CT Fire Chief Headed To Prison for Sex With a Minor

The victim was a female junior volunteer firefighter.

Former Coventry Volunteer Fire Department Chief Joseph Carilli, 54, will spend the next ten years in prison for having sex with a teenage junior firefighter when he was serving as the chief and impregnatingΒ her, NBC Connecticut reports.Β 

The sexual relationship goes back to when the teen was just 15 years-old she told police, NBC reports. He was charged with second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.Β 

Read the full NBC report here.Β 

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