Crime Former BYU Baseball Starter Given 6 Months "Local Jail Sentence" in Idaho After Sexually Assaulting Girl Multiple Times Between Ages 7 to 12

[Siver!]

Former BYU baseball starter sentenced after sexually assaulting young girl for 5 years - East Idaho News

ST. ANTHONY — Just hours after her first day of high school, a 15-year-old girl sat in a Fremont County courtroom and told a full gallery of people, both known to her and not, about her life from the ages of 7 to 12, when she was being sexually assaulted. Candon Dean Dahle, 22, was […]

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ST. ANTHONY — Just hours after her first day of high school, a 15-year-old girl sat in a Fremont County courtroom and told a full gallery of people, both known to her and not, about her life from the ages of 7 to 12, when she was being sexually assaulted.
Candon Dean Dahle, 22, was sentenced by District Judge Steven Boyce to a minimum of five and a maximum of ten years in prison. Boyce then suspended the sentence and placed Dahle on probation for eight years.
He was also given a 180-day local jail sentence that began on Tuesday. After that, he will be required to complete 200 hours of community service.
Dahle was arrested on Feb. 7 in Provo, Utah, on a juvenile court warrant out of Bingham County for lewd conduct with a child. He was then extradited and booked into the Bingham County Jail in Blackfoot.
He was initially charged in two counties, Fremont and Bingham, both on one count of felony lewd conduct with a child.
Dahle later accepted a plea agreement, where he agreed to plead guilty in Fremont County to amended charges of two counts of felony injury to a child. In return, the prosecution agreed to drop the case in Bingham County and not require Dahle to register as a sex offender while recommending a term of probation at sentencing.
Dahle was a senior baseball pitcher at Brigham Young University in Provo, but is originally from Blackfoot. His athlete information has since been taken off the BYU baseball website.
In February, BYU Media Relations Manager Todd Hollingshead confirmed to EastIdahoNews.com that Dahle was no longer enrolled at BYU. He was first enrolled at BYU in 2024, after transferring from the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.

The victims speak​

The victim and three members of her family provided impact statements to the court, expressing their regret over agreeing to the plea agreement following an hours-long mediation session, and explaining the pain their family has experienced since they learned of the sexual assault.
Her father described seeing his daughter’s personality change drastically over the years, and what it was like when he realized why.
“I cannot even hug my daughter. Touch repulses her. She cringes and pulls away every time I make an attempt to hug her. Please let that sentence marinate for a minute,” said the father. “Listening to my daughter, her earliest memories of the abuse she can remember are at the age of seven. I wish I could show you the videos I have on my phone of her at that age. She is truly a gift from my Heavenly Father. She is filled with pure, absolute joy. Her laughter is so contagious. To think she had to endure a personal hell until the age of 12 is, at times, too much to bear for me.”

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Let's talk about this "justice".

A Republican-appointed judge just let this piece of shit walk free after sexually abusing a child for 5 years.

5 goddamn years.

I've seen some bad, bad, bad sentences get called out on here... is this possibly the worst ever?!

 

[Spam On Rye]

I think because the judge was appointed by a republican it makes it objectively worse.

 

[Siver!]

I think because the judge was appointed by a republican it makes it objectively worse.

That would be cool if "Soros-appointed" hadn't dominated the forums for the past few years.

But it's not the main point.

The main point is this might be the worst sentence I've seen in a long time.

 

[Osculater]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have to much juice

 

[Spam On Rye]

That would be cool if "Soros-appointed" hadn't dominated the forums for the past few years.

But it's not the main point.

The main point is this might be the worst sentence I've seen in a long time.

I was just being snarky saying this is gonna turn into a left-right political thread.

Yeah, it's horrific no doubt. No clue if it's the worst. Seems like news is constantly going with this kind of stuff. Best prescription is millstone into the sea imo.

 

[Siver!]

I was just being snarky saying this is gonna turn into a left-right political thread.

Yeah, it's horrific no doubt. No clue if it's the worst. Seems like news is constantly going with this kind of stuff. Best prescription is millstone into the sea imo.

I gotta be honest, child sex crimes judgements are just wild at the minute.

I really don't know why, because it's not a left-right issue, I can't imagine anyone supporting this guy walking free and yet... dude has walked free.

Like, WTF?

 

[Spam On Rye]

I gotta be honest, child sex crimes judgements are just wild at the minute.

I really don't know why, because it's not a left-right issue, I can't imagine anyone supporting this guy walking free and yet... dude has walked free.

Like, WTF?

Maybe a sports connection or rich kid? Or because he was young? The length of the abuse is staggering tbh. Should get at least 20 years, at least.

 

[Rygu]

Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, it doesn't matter.

Crimes against children like this only have two proper punishments. The rest of their life in gen pop in federal prison, or execution.

There are no other acceptable punishments.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Looks like what I would expect. Fire that trash into space. Strap the judge and everyone else involved to him.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

Public whipping and then sent straight to a labour camp.

 

[Broke Lester]

Put him on the rack.

 

[WklySportsMemes]

I guess all the "Sound of Freedom" & "Tough on Crime" people are still sleeping. Sad to see this getting buried already.

Gee, I wonder why they wont possibly count this as real outrageous crime....Hmmmmmmmmmm
I wonder if they will bring up the statistics for these kind of crimes.

 

[nostradumbass]

Your article doesn't say he "walked free", it says he pled guilty and is in jail right now and will be for the next 6 months, followed by 8 years of probation and a suspended sentence of 5-10 years in prison if he violates probation.

Dude should just get the full prison sentence, but seems from the article that the family and prosecutor agreed to a plea deal for charges of "injury to a child" and were seeking probation, and the judge added a suspended sentence of 5-10 years, where injury to a child is punishable by 1-10 years unless the child is dead or permanently disabled, and the judge is the one who gave the top end for the suspended sentence for the charges.

 

[koquerelle]

The pos should rot in jail. Shame on the judge.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

I might be in the minority, but I think the judge should be punished the most in this situation.

He was bribed.

Vigilante justice and some brass knuckles should help things.

Then get the pervert after.

 

[Confucamus]

That's an abomination of justice. People have gotten way more than that for ONE sexual assault incident, and this guy gets a slap on the wrist for sexually assaulting a little girl for 5 years? These are the types of stories that make more and more people lose faith in the justice system.

 

[Jar of Flies]

I bet the judge said “boys will be boys” before lowering his sentence to a slap on the wrist.

 

[Siver!]

Your article doesn't say he "walked free", it says he pled guilty and is in jail right now and will be for the next 6 months, followed by 8 years of probation and a suspended sentence of 5-10 years in prison if he violates probation.

Dude should just get the full prison sentence, but seems from the article that the family and prosecutor agreed to a plea deal for charges of "injury to a child" and were seeking probation, and the judge added a suspended sentence of 5-10 years, where injury to a child is punishable by 1-10 years unless the child is dead or permanently disabled, and the judge is the one who gave the top end for the suspended sentence for the charges.

Changed the title.

The term "suspended sentence" blew my mind, gotta be honest with you.

Suspended for what reason?

10 years absolute minimum, I'm in favour of 25 personally.

Or, y'know, the more medieval approaches others recommend.

 

[Natural Order]

You lost me at Utah and mormons. All bets are off when those loonies are involved.

 

[nostradumbass]

Changed the title.

The term "suspended sentence" blew my mind, gotta be honest with you.

Suspended for what reason?

10 years absolute minimum, I'm in favour of 25 personally.

Or, y'know, the more medieval approaches others recommend.

It was suspended because it seems the prosecution and the victim's family agreed to a plea deal and were only seeking probation, so the judge added the max for the suspended sentence to have something fairly severe hanging over the guy's head if he breaks any law or violates the parole he'll be on for his entire 20s after getting out of jail.

I don't think it's admissible in court, but the dude somehow did pass a polygraph saying he didn't do it, so I think they agreed to the plea deal to at least definitely get some punishment because they didn't want to risk him actually walking free by losing going to trial on higher charges.

Dude should obviously have a lengthy sentence for what the crime is, but the crime and charges aren't the same thing. Getting someone to plead guilty and still expecting the highest charges and sentence almost never happens, otherwise nobody would plead guilty, and I don't think 25 years for charges of injury to a child is even an option unless the child was killed or permanently disabled. 10 years is the top end, and most places wouldn't even give that to a guy who was 14 years old himself when this started.

The Fremont county prosecutor is a woman who ran unopposed btw.


Fremont County Prosecutor Lindsey Blake argued for a 10-year probation term,

Blake acknowledged that Dahle completed a polygraph test that indicated he was telling the truth when he claimed he did not sexually abuse the victim, but noted that he did admit to the crime by pleading guilty.

Dahle later accepted a plea agreement, where he agreed to plead guilty in Fremont County to amended charges of two counts of felony injury to a child. In return, the prosecution agreed to drop the case in Bingham County and not require Dahle to register as a sex offender while recommending a term of probation at sentencing.