Ex-Homeland Security aide freed on bail (sex charges) - CNN

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Ex-Homeland Security aide freed on bail
Official to return to Maryland after hearing on child sex charges

BARTOW, Florida (CNN) -- Former Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle was released on bond from a Florida jail Thursday after appearing in court to face charges of soliciting a minor for sex over the Internet. Doyle, 56, waived extradition in Maryland and arrived at the Polk County jail in Bartow, Florida, Wednesday. In an initial appearance and bond hearing Thursday morning, Circuit Judge Dale Durrance set his bail at $230,000 and scheduled Doyle's arraignment for May 23.

Defense lawyer Barry Helfand said Doyle will return to his home in Maryland to be examined by two psychiatrists who specialize in sexual dysfunctions.

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Durrance ordered Doyle to turn over his passport and have no contact with anyone under 18 while free on bail.

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The former deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security is charged with seven counts of use of a computer to seduce a child and 16 counts of transmission of harmful material to a minor, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. His bail was set at $10,000 on each count.
Investigators accuse Doyle, who resigned from Homeland Security after his arrest, of engaging in sexually explicit conversations online and sending pornographic movie clips to the person he thought was a 14-year-old.

no mention in article on who appointed him to this crony position in Homeland security.
I guess that when Homeland security says they are watching you - they mean that literally - especially if your a little girl. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house...

The fact that he got bail & they are talking about 'treatment' already indicates he'll get a
sweetheart deal.

Suggesting cures and looking for the "reason" he did it. What a crock.

he'll probably be 'reborn' and write his tell-all book about redemption

What we have here is "thought crime."

> ... charged with seven counts of use of a computer to seduce a child
> and 16 counts of transmission of harmful material to a minor
> ... engaging in sexually explicit conversations online and sending
> pornographic movie clips to the person he thought was a 14-year-old.

The fact is that the "child" was an adult masquerading as a minor. There was no crime here. No minor was "seduced."

By the twisted logic used here, I would be guilty of a "crime" if I were to approach a 25-year-old woman who "looked 14."