BEAVERTON, Ore. — The previous mayor of a suburb of Portland, Oregon, has been sentenced to 6 months in federal jail for possessing youngster pornography.
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Ex-Oregon mayor sentenced to federal prison for child porn
Doyle pleaded responsible to a federal cost of possessing youngster pornography in October as a part of a plea settlement during which a jail sentence of about one 12 months was really useful.
Between November 2014 and December 2015, whereas Doyle was mayor, he downloaded digital media on his private laptop containing youngster pornography, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
A number of of the pictures have been of youngsters below the age of 12 who had been recognized as sexually exploited minors by the Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters.
When the FBI contacted Doyle at his house, he admitted the drive was his and that he had downloaded the pictures, in keeping with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace.
Doyle informed the choose final 12 months he was in counseling.
He served on the Beaverton Metropolis Council for greater than a decade earlier than he was elected mayor in 2008. He misplaced a reelection bid in 2020.