A Montco man is charged with soliciting sex with a 15-year-old girl after paying for pictures of her feet
Dennis Reilly, 76,of Hatboro, was arrested Friday and charged with multiple sex-related offenses.
A 76-year-old Hatboro man has been charged with allegedly soliciting sex acts with a 15-year-old girl after paying her and her younger sister for pictures of their feet, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said Monday.
Dennis Reilly was arrested Friday and charged with multiple sex-related offenses. He was being held at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $99,000 cash bail, Steele said.
On Thursday, two adults went to the Hatboro police station to report an alleged interaction between a man and a 15-year-old girl, Steele said.
One of the adults, whose son is in a relationship with the teen girl, said he learned that she and her younger sister were recently outside walking a dog when they were approached by a man who was later identified as Reilly, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
They were having a conversation when Reilly allegedly asked about the socks they were wearing, and this interaction led to Reilly paying the girls “around $100″ for pictures of their feet, according to the affidavit.
The father of the 15-year-old girl’s boyfriend learned the girl was allegedly receiving multiple texts from Reilly asking for more photos of her feet, the affidavit said. The father then texted Reilly from his own phone pretending to be her and saying she had a new phone; thus, so the teen would no longer be getting Reilly’s texts on her old phone.
The father had a text exchange with Reilly that allegedly showed Reilly wanted to meet the girl to take more photos, specifically asking that she wear the “shoes you wore to school,” according to the affidavit.
A Hatboro detective then used the father’s phone to continue pretending to be the teen girl and asked Reilly if she could do more to make $300, the affidavit said.
Reilly allegedly made sexually explicit suggestions for what he wanted in exchange for the additional money and arranged for a meeting at a Wawa in Hatboro. The detective confronted Reilly at the Wawa and revealed Reilly had been texting with the police, the affidavit said.
Reilly allegedly admitted he had a “foot fetish,” but he claimed he had not intended to go through with any sexual contact with the girl, the affidavit said.
The detective asked to see the alleged pictures on Reilly’s phone of the girl’s feet, and Reilly “then accessed his cell phone photo library where I was able to see a large quantity of images of feet,” including the 15-year-old girl’s, the detective said in the affidavit.
Reilly’s phone was taken as evidence.
Hatboro Police Chief Mark Ruegg said that anyone who believes they have had a similar encounter with Reilly can call the Hatboro police at 215-675-2832.