Retired fire chief charged with telling woman to give 6-year-old oral sex

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: His mother is 103 years old and his bloodlines in Virginia run deep, according to records on Harvey Kelley, a former fire chief charged with going online and instructing a woman — who turned out to be an undercover detective — to give a 6-year-old child oral sex. Kelley is 78 and married.

Photo Credit: *of BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE*

Jerry DeMarco

12/17/2010 4:54 p.m.

Harvey Kelley
(Mugshot courtesy of BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE)

Investigators from Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s office went to Virginia, got a search warrant and then — with help from the Virginia State Police and the Albemarle County Police Department — arrested Kelley at his Waynesboro home earlier this week.

The charges: endangering the welfare of a minor, specifically by transmitting child pornography, and conspiring to commit aggravated sexual assault.

Despite his age, Kelley will certainly go to prison if he is convicted at a trial or negotiates a plea deal.

Kelley was snagged in a virtual dragnet stretched across the Internet by members of the Computer Crimes Unit in Molinelli’s office (And if his hometown sounds familiar, it’s because it’s used as a mythical locale in Bruce Springsteen’s “Promised Land”).

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