Re: U.S. Homeland Security Official Arrested in Online Sex Sting

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Fergie wrote:

> Via MSNBC (AP).
>
> [snip]
>
> The deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to 
> seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities said.
>
> Brian J. Doyle, 55, of Silver Spring, Md., was arrested on seven charges of use of a computer to seduce a child and 
> 16 counts of transmission of harmful material to a minor. The charges were issued out of Polk County, Fla.
>
> Doyle had a sexually explicit conversation with what he believed was a 14-year-old girl whose profile he saw on the 
> Internet on March 14, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12159118/
>
> - ferg
 
I understand it's a crime if you thought a girl was over 18, and she's 
actually under 18, because what counts is what is true, not what you 
thought was true.

But wouldn't that also mean that the reverse is true, if the person he was 
actually seducing was a 45 year old fed?

Colour me confused.

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