Reply #29: sentenced 5 YEARS plus 10 years probation Life time registration as a Sex Offender

[Maq]

Former Homeland Security press aide sentenced to prison
By Michael Hampton
Posted: November 19, 2006 3:03 pm
Brian Doyle, 56, former deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after pleading no contest to charges that he sent sexually explicit messages over the Internet to Florida sheriff’s deputies.
Doyle will also have to serve 10 years of probation and register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
On April 4, Doyle was arrested on charges of child solicitation and transmitting harmful materials to a minor. The minor, however, did not actually exist.

“I am profoundly sorry for everything. How I feel inside can’t be described,” Doyle told Circuit Judge J. Dale Durrance. . . .
Prosecutors said Doyle, of Silver Spring, Md., wrote graphic descriptions of sexual acts in online chats with a 14-year-old named “Ashlynne,” who was actually a character created by sheriff’s detectives. — Associated Press

As I have said before, this sort of sting operation skirts very close to the line between catching real criminals and entrapment, and in my opinion, crosses the line. Doyle has done nothing here except engage in a fantasy, something many people do. Under Florida law, however, this thought crime will get you thrown in prison. Florida doesn’t require there to be an actual victim in such cases.

Never share your fantasies with anyone via instant messages. You never know when the person on the other end will be a cop with no real criminals to go after who’s looking to take down a “child predator.” Next it’ll be S&M practitioners. Then gay people. Then anybody who fantasizes about anything other than the missionary position.

Certainly, people should not be having sex with children. People also shouldn’t be having sex with police, either…

2 trackbacks
18 comments

SOURCE: http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/19/former-homeland-security-press-aide-sentenced-to-prison/