Brookline Probation Officer Indicted On New Child Porn Charges

BROOKLINE, MA — A former Brookline probation officer and little league umpire previously arraigned on child exploitation charges has been indicted on new charges, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden.

Michael O'Reilly of West Roxbury is set to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court next month on indictments charging him with trafficking a person for sexual servitude for enticing a minor to create and send him sexual images and videos, distribution of child sexual abuse materials, dissemination of a matter harmful to a minor, posing a child in a state of nudity, and three counts of possession of child sexual abuse materials, said Hayden’s office in a news release.

O’Reilly, who worked as a probation officer in Brookline District Court and served as an umpire and umpire coordinator for Parkway Little League in West Roxbury, was previously arraigned in October 2021 to charges of posing a child in a state of nudity, dissemination of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, said prosecutors.

“These allegations are deeply disturbing,” said Hayden in a statement. "That a public servant who held a position of trust in the community stands accused of exploiting children makes this case even more concerning. I would like to thank all of our partners, locally, federally, and across jurisdictions, who have worked to hold this individual accountable.”

In October, the Boston Police Department opened an investigation into O'Reilly after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alleging that he had shared sexual abuse material on a messenger app, said prosecutors.

BPD detectives, along with members of the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, subsequently executed a search warrant at O'Reilly's home and found items that contained child sexual abuse material.

The investigation continued following O’Reilly’s arrest, revealing that O’Reilly had an ongoing relationship with a minor female in Iowa that was memorialized in sexual images, videos, and audio files exchanged between the two, include those in which O’Reilly instructed the victim to create and share sexual images and videos.

Hayden’s office said that many of the video files appear to have been recorded inside the Brookline District Court Probation Department.