GOP Texas Mayor Charged With Soliciting Child Sex

Dallas’s CBS News affiliate reports:

Matt McIlravy formally resigned from his position of Pilot Point mayor this morning after being indicted earlier this week for online solicitation of a child.

MacIlravy, a married father of two boys, was arrested on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 in an undercover operation conducted by Dallas police. He is accused of arranging to meet up and engage in sexual activity with a girl he believed was 13 years old.

McIlravy, who previously served as a Pilot Point City Council member, was booked into Dallas County jail Tuesday afternoon on the second-degree felony charge.

Read the full article. MacIlravy is reportedly the leader of a men’s prayer group.