ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL INDICTED IN SEX CASE.Byline: Staff and Wire Services LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. - Quail Valley School assistant principal Cliff Doty has been indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. on charges he used America Online to send child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. , and to solicit sex from an undercover sheriff's detective he believed was a 13-year-old girl. Doty, 40, of Lancaster, s scheduled to enter a plea to the charges on Dec. 4 in federal court in Los Angeles. He faces up to 45 years in a federal prison if convicted of all three charges. He has been placed on paid leave from his school job and is under house arrest at his mother's Littlerock home. Doty was arrested by the FBI Nov. 10 in San Bernardino, where agents say he had gone to meet the ``girl.'' Doty is accused in the federal indictment, filed Friday, of using ``a facility of interstate commerce interstate commerce In the U.S., any commercial transaction or traffic that crosses state boundaries or that involves more than one state. Government regulation of interstate commerce is founded on the commerce clause of the Constitution (Article I, section 8), which to attempt to induce a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, and two counts of transportation and shipping of child pornography.'' Doty allegedly used the Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. to chat in the ``Widdle Gurls'' room under the screen name ``Hocke76723,'' according to a government affidavit filed in Los Angeles. Doty started working in the Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. in 1983. He was president of the teachers union before his promotion last year to the assistant principal's post. Doty, who has a 10-year-old daughter and other children, was released on $35,000 bond, on the condition that he wear an electronic monitor and live with his mother. Doty's lawyer could not be reached for comment. Doty allegedly sent pictures of men engaged in sex acts with underage girls to a San Bernardino County sheriff's detective, who had been posing as a 13-year-old girl in the chat room regularly monitored for pedophiles. The government alleges the contact between the two occurred between Sept. 10 and Nov. 2. |
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