MIAMI - The deputy press secretary for the U.S. 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, was arrested at his residence in Maryland on charges of use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of harmful material to a minor. The charges were issued out of Polk County, Fla.
Doyle, of Silver Spring, Md., 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.
The girl was an undercover Polk County Sheriff's Computer Crimes detective, the sheriff's office said.
Doyle sent the girl pornographic movie clips and had sexually explicit conversations via the Internet, the statement said.
During other online conversations, Doyle revealed his name, that he worked for the Homeland Security Department and offered his office and government issued cell phone numbers, the sheriff's office said.
Doyle also sent photos of himself to the girl, but authorities said they were not sexually explicit.
On several occasions, Doyle instructed her to perform a sexual act while thinking of him and described explicit activities he wanted to have with her, investigators said.
Doyle later had a telephone conversation with an undercover deputy posing as the teenager and encouraged her to purchase a web camera to send graphic images of herself to him, the sheriff's office said.
He was booked into Maryland's Montgomery County jail where he was waiting to be extradited to Florida, the sheriff's office said.
There was no immediate response to messages left on Doyle's government-issued cell phone and his e-mail, and he could not be reached by phone at the jail for comment.
Homeland Security press secretary Russ Knocke in Washington said he could not comment on the details of the investigation. "We take these allegations very seriously, and we will cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation," Knocke said.
Doyle, who is the fourth-ranking official in the department's public affairs office, was expected to be placed on administrative leave Wednesday morning.
-- Edited by mikacat at 00:17, 2006-04-05
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creep. btw, what IS the fascination with young girls and boys? I. Do. Not. Get. It. At. All. It can't be that all these freaks are sick, can it? I mean sick in a psychological sense.
Well from what I've read/heard (and I have nothing to back this up so no one ream me) a lot of these people were abused as kids - physically, mentally, and sexually buy an adult. Also the young girl/boy thing I think relates to these are "clean" kids meaning they've never had sex so the chance of disease is minimal to these people. Plus they represent innocense so that may be another thing these predators are thinking.
1. uh, why on earth did he give the "girl" his gov't issued cell phone number and office number? and why did he tell her he works for homeland security? isn't that sorta asking to be caught? it's pretty easy to trace the numbers back to the person. just to play creepy devil's advocate but shouldn't you give the kids a cell phone number that can't be traced to you? like one of those throw away ones that just have so many minutes attached to them? ya know, the ones that all the best spies use. i mean really, ya gotta be a piss poor pedophile (like my alliteration there?) to be giving out your work number!
2. administrative leave my ass. i hate that. dude, why can't they just fire the bastard? this happens all the time, an "important" person gets in trouble and they are only put on administrative leave. yeah yeah, innocent until proven guilty but seriously, is this guy gonna be allowed to come back even if proven innocent (which really seems likely, see reason #1) by a court of law? i don't think so. just fire his ass.
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