Ex-aide sentenced in online sex case
A 56-year-old former Homeland Security Department press aide was sentenced in Bartow to five years in prison after he pleaded no contest to sending sexually explicit Internet messages to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. The recipient was an online character created by detectives.
Brian J. Doyle, who resigned shortly after his April 4 arrest, also will have to serve 10 years of probation and register as a sex offender. “I am profoundly sorry for everything. How I feel inside can’t be described,” Doyle told Circuit Judge J. Dale Durrance.
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