School Employee Accused Of Trying To Buy Minors

School Employee Accused of Trying to Buy Minors
Thu Jul 26, 5:07 PM ET

The FBI Wednesday night searched the home of a local man charged in connection with trying to purchase children in Miami for sexual torture.

Jeff Doland, 45, is charged with the selling or buying of minors, a first-degree felony, and promoting the sexual performance of a child, a second-degree felony. Doland is the technology director for the Green Local School District.

Prosecutors said he flew to Miami believing he was going to meet a mother of two girls.

Instead, Doland met officials with the U.S. Secret Service.

Doland allegedly told the woman he would pay the woman $550 to "forcibly submerge the children, ages 9 and 12 years old, under water until they became unconsciousness, then raising the person out of the water."

During multiple Internet conversations, Doland allegedly told the woman, an undercover agent with the United States Secret Service, that "dunking" was his particular form of sexual gratification.

Officials said Doland claimed he "liked watching the bubbles" and went on to send the undercover agent explicit images of child torture as examples of what he proposed to do to the two young children, including a detailed explanation of how he planned to bind the young girls to the bottom of the pool of water.

Doland's neighbors were shocked by the news.

"I'm appalled," said Heidi Coup. "I'm absolutely appalled. It's shocking to me. I mean, it shocks anybody in a neighborhood if they here something like that. My gosh."

Doland remains in a Miami jail.

If he is convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison.

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