Haidl pleads no contest to sex charge
A former Orange County assistant sheriff’s son, who is serving time for the sexual assault of a teenage girl, pleaded no contest Wednesday to having unlawful sex with another underage girl.
Gregory Haidl, 21, did not appear in court. He entered a plea to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful sex through his attorney Allan H. Stokke, said Susan Kang Schroeder, spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney’s office.
Haidl received six months in custody, but prosecutors agreed that the sentence should run concurrently with the six-year prison term he received for the earlier sex assault conviction.
Prosecutors said Haidl had unlawful sex with the girl -- identified as Jane Doe 2 -- when she was 16 in July 2004. At the time, Haidl and two other men were awaiting trial in the 2002 sexual assault of another 16-year-old girl, identified as Jane Doe 1. The girl was assaulted at the home of former Assistant Sheriff Donald Haidl.
The three men were convicted in 2005 of assaulting Jane Doe 1, and each was sentenced to six years in prison in March 2006. Their first trial ended in a mistrial in 2004.
After the mistrial, Gregory Haidl threw a party at his father’s home in Corona del Mar to celebrate, Schroeder said. He met Jane Doe 2 at the party.
Two weeks later, sheriff’s deputies responded to a San Clemente house when neighbors complained about a barking dog. The deputies found evidence that Haidl had been having sex with the girl. Her attorney said the sex was consensual and that she did not want to press charges, but the district attorney went ahead with the case.
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