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Former RI Deputy Fire Chief Gets 20 Years on Child Molestation Charges

Chris Boardman

Story Created: Apr 14, 2009 at 9:37 AM EDT

Story Updated: Apr 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM EDT

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - A former deputy fire chief from Rhode Island has been sentenced to 20 years in jail on second-degree child molestation charges.

Authorities say 44-year-old Joseph Jolly of Hopkinton entered a no contest plea to three charges earlier this month. Superior Court Judge Bennett Gallo sentenced Jolly to 20 years, five to serve and the rest on probation.

A first-degree child molestation charge was dismissed.     

The Providence Journal reports that Jolly, a laborer for Hopkinton's Public Works Department at the time of his arrest in March 2008, had been charged by secret indictment. He was charged with sexually molesting a girl under 14 between Aug. 15, 2004 and July 15, 2005.

He had been deputy chief of the Hope Valley-Wyoming Fire Department until 2005.
 

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