Fri Jan 27, 2023 – 1:39 pm EST
BEAVERTON, Oregon (LifeSiteNews) — A former Democratic mayor of a town in Oregon has been sentenced to just six months in prison for possessing child pornography.
“Dennis ‘Denny’ Doyle, the former mayor of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced to federal prison today for illegally possessing child pornography,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week.
“Doyle, 74, a Beaverton resident, was sentenced to six months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. Doyle was also ordered to pay $22,000 in restitution to his victims,” the January 24 news release stated.
The sentence is quite small considering that the DOJ originally said in March 2022 that Doyle faced “a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, and a life term of supervised release.”
The DOJ explained further in its recent news release:
According to court documents, in late January 2022, the Beaverton Police Department was notified by a local business that a USB thumb drive containing possible child pornography had been found. The business provided the thumb drive to law enforcement, and it was determined that did indeed contain child pornography. Additionally, the drive contained
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