Department of Justice
United States Attorney Gregory G. Lockhart
Southern District of Ohio
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
CONTACT: Fred Alverson |
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Lifetime Supervision, $15,000 Fine, Taken Into Custody |
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DAYTON – Daniel Doyle, age 33, of Spring Valley was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 120 months imprisonment for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a teenage student of his between August 2003 and April 2007 including when coaching and chaperoning her at judo competitions around the world. Doyle was taken into custody at sentencing today to begin serving his jail term.
Doyle pleaded guilty on November 9, 2007 to one count of Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in a Foreign Place. Doyle also admitted videotaping the two of them engaged in sex on at least one occasion.
Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cincinnati Field Division; Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer, and Greene County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen K. Haller announced the sentence handed down today by United States District Judge Thomas M. Rose.
Doyle’s sentence includes a fine of $15,000. Additional penalties include a $100 mandatory special assessment and forfeiture of certain video-making equipment. Doyle will be on supervised release for life at the conclusion of his prison term and he is required to register as a federal sex offender wherever he lives. Judge Rose also ordered that Doyle have no contact with minors, either supervised or unsupervised, including mail or phone contact, and he must stay away from anywhere minors congregate. Doyle was also ordered to attend a sex offender treatment program.
According to a statement of facts filed with the plea agreement, the victim started judo classes with Doyle in 1998 when she was about eight years old. Doyle began a sexual relationship with the victim when she was no older than 14. Doyle also videotaped at least one occurrence of the pair engaged in sexual activity when the victim was approximately 16 years old.
Doyle admitted to illicit sexual activity with the victim while he was her chaperone at judo competitions in Venezuela, Estonia, and Russia in 2005 and 2006.
Lockhart commended the cooperative investigation by agents of the FBI and Greene County Sheriff’s Office as well as the cooperation with the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office and Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Clemmens, who prosecuted the case.