Judge adds additional penalty to Mike Dozer’s 17 year prison sentence
By Graham Gremore · 72 comments· Updated on January 29, 2024
Mike Dozer’s prison sentence just got a lot longer! That’s what you get for diddling kids.
The adult film star, whose real name is Christopher Steele, just had a whole bunch more time slapped on to his already lengthy prison sentence. His crime? Being found guilty of raping a 14-year-old boy.
In February 2016, then-33-year-old Dozer pleaded guilty to one charge of felony rape and another charge of reckless endangerment of another person. The court sentenced him to 17 years and six months in prison.
Later in April 2016, a state court judge sentenced Dozer for committing involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child under 16 years old and recklessly endangering another person. Montgomery County Judge Thomas P. Rogers then added an additional eight to 16 years to the original sentence.
Those extra years bring the total up to 25 to 33 years and six months in prison.
“It was so reckless, so outrageous,” Rogers scolded, “that it goes beyond all bounds of human decency.”
Dozer allegedly met up with his victim in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania after first connecting with the boy on the website, Jack’d. Then, they reportedly then had sex without a condom, despite Dozer being HIV-positive.
Prosecutors argued Dozer lacked concern that the boy was underage, telling the child, “I kinda like my guys young,” according to the criminal complaint. To make matters worse, child pornography was also uncovered on Dozer’s computer during the investigation. Gross!
“Reckless, selfish, lacking empathy, and dangerous, these are the words that describe this defendant,” Assistant D.A. Sophia Polites, said. “This defendant took advantage of this child, took advantage of his age and took advantage of his vulnerability.”
She continued: “He engaged in some of the most egregious and heinous behaviors. He is deceitful. Simply put, he is a dangerous individual.”
Ex-cop Ryan Ballard caused quite a headache for himself when he confessed to another police officer to fictitious sex crimes he did not commit.
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In PA it’s up to 20 years in prison for statutory rape of a minor, but this involves homosexuality so expect the worst, harshest, longest sentence. I’m surprised he didn’t get life. When you’re gay and you commit atrocities like this, expect the worst most harsh sentences as opposed to your straight counter-parts.
What he did was wrong but a longer sentence for being gay is unacceptable! That means the law looks at us differently and that my friends is discrimination! Unacceptable what he did but also unnacceptable two sentences one for state and one for county! Who does this? Where is his attorney? Sleeping perhaps?
…and that predator deserves every single day of it. It’s silly and ignorant to try and paint Dozier as a victim of a homophobic justice system. Dozier is an animal that absolutely should receive the maximum sentence permissible by law. What if he had violated YOUR kid?
He lives in the US so he must pay for what he did. But here in Brazil he would not be convicted. Well, he WOULD, but not because of the 14yo. He would be put in jail because child porn is strictly forbidden in Brazil. I do believe the sentence was too harsh.
@Masc Pride: Regardless of how heinous a crime, prisoners have rights too. Especially gay prisoners who face immense discrimination by the legal and jusrice system.
He’d get less time if he was the kids’ mother and just killed the kid. Not to reduce the gravity of the crime… 33 years is a bit much for a non-murder charge.
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: This whole story is really interesting and sad. Dozer was part of a sex ring that used this kid for sex. His own partner committed suicide rather then go through all of this.
Of coarse homophobia will play a part. Look at someone like Mary Kay Letourneau. She was caught doing a 13 year old. She’s straight and being a women gets her a slap on the wrist sentence of 80 days and the rest probation.
Not saying that he doesn’t deserve time. The sentence is ridiculous though.
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: Interesting. In my state of CA it all depends on the age difference but even at that they’re very lenient compared to states like PA. Even still the maximum is 20 years.
They really threw the book at Dozer. Him being positive didn’t help of coarse but everyone knew he was a positive porn star.
@Stache: I’ve read about some cases involving gay defendants where the majority of the jury believed that “gay was a choice” and that “being gay was a sin”. Can you imagine your life in these people’s hands? Frightening.
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: There is no disregarding how heinous the crime was. This is 33 years Dozer won’t be able to do this to another minor. Again, if this was your raped and now possibly HIV-infected (for life) child, I highly doubt you’d be claiming Dozer’s punishment is unjust. Pedophiles and rapists absolutely should rot in jail — gay or straight.
This kid wasn’t in danger! It was in poor taste to not use a condom but being HIV positive and non detectable you cannot pass it on! Do some research before making such claims! Being HIV positive I’m fairly certain I know more about the illness than you do? I’ve spent hours upon hours with my physician going over every scenario! People need to stop stigmatizing this illness or nobody will get treated! That my friends is when the real problems will begin! People not on treatment having say 3 encounters per week without knowing and passing it! They intern have 3 encounters per week! Do you see where this is going quickly? Do you?
@Masc Pride: I’m the last to defend guys like this. However, it was consensual and no one got hurt. Yet he’s getting a sentence that’s worse then murder.
No one here is saying what he did was right and that he doesn’t deserve punishment. Make noo mistake. This is a special punishment for gay men.
I’m with you 100 percent! I’m wondering if any legal groups would step in to help him? He’s not innocent of all crime but certainly the sentences were far too harsh! He didn’t deserve more time than given for murder! My Aunt was murdered and raped stapled 32 times! Killer got 8 years in Wisconsin! If he had been gay and it was a man he probably would’ve gotten 50 years? Why not even it out and make. Otha like 20 years
I’m not certain why the kid was on the adult apps, (I wasnt that advanced at 14 years old), but the kid got a crash course on the dark side of gay life.
@Stache: “Look at someone like Mary Kay Letourneau.”
To this day I can’t figure out what she saw in that ugly little ba-tard to make her leave her husband and kids. I mean get real. As in pull out the magnifying glass and tweezers, if you get my drift.
As for this guy and that kid I take the fifth, your honor. I see BOTH as being guilty here and do not believe many of these kids and their “traumatic” memories are every thing else but that. I didn’t know about the boyfriend committing suicide. Do you have the link to the “scoop”, as in details about what actually transpired from the front door kick down and on? Thanks.
@Stache: “Look at someone like Mary Kay Letourneau.”
To this day I can’t figure out what she saw in that ugly little ba-tard to make her leave her husband and kids. I mean get real. As in pull out the magnifying glass and tweezers, if you get my drift.
@Bob LaBlah: The Sword .com did a better story on it IMO but queerty won’t allow me to post their link.
Yeah, you had to go there. Lol I guess she just likes em young and maybe she got tired of her white husband. If I’m going to be doing time for someone they better be hot and hung as hell.
@Stache: This was a 14 year old kid, not a consenting adult. How do you know that no one was hurt? These guys didn’t care about the rights of the individuals they violated, yet if they’re treated unfairly we’re supposed to care about their rights as criminals? I’m sorry but that’s the exact mentality that’s leading to a country where predators have more rights than their victims. Like I said, for criminals that obviously don’t care anything about anyone else, fear of unjust punishment is a great reason to not violate others (though it shouldn’t be the only reason).
@Masc Pride: Post pubescent teenagers are not “children”, except to the christian right and others who see the world through a specific unrealistic lens. And statutory rape is not the same (necessarily) as violent sexual assault, as the statutes themselves recognize.
Certainly a reasonable adult should not have sex with a legal minor less than half their age, and does not withhold HIV status from someone likely to be ignorant of its importance. This is not, however, pedophilia either in a legal or psychological sense, and there is a long history of liaisons with this kind of age disparity throughout history (especially involving marriages between men and very young women…not always forced as we’d all like to believe). Teenagers are as likely to be the sexual aggressors in situations like this, and it is not always the younger one who is the victim. When I was in around 30 I had sex with a 15 year old who had used fake ID to get into the baths in Manhattan. Given his height and body hair he easily passed for 20 and only told me the truth afterwards (and he was clearly VERY experienced as a top). Scared the shit out of me as he could have used his age to blackmail both me and the facility we were at.
Let’s leave the emotional and uninformed responses to the heterosexuals who demonstrate all the time that they are much more upset by their young men being “turned gay” than by their young women being abused (look at the shorter sentence given to that Subway guy who was into actual children, but only girls). Sex with those much younger is most often a lapse of judgement, not the act of a “predator”. Had Dozer been 20-21 (probably his intellectual age) the sex would not necessarily have been considered statutory rape in many states. The predatory act is the callous withholding of HIV status, and the failure to protect a partner likely to be naive where HIV is concerned.
@Masc Pride: Please learn what the legal and psychological definition of a pedophile is. You are using the Christian Right definition, not the real one. And also learn the difference between Rape (in the sense of sexual assault) and Statutory Rape (what Dozeer was actually charged with, and which is quite often involves understood consent on the part of both parties).
@dwes09: How about we leave the defending of pedophiles to pedophiles? 14 year-olds are children in the eyes of the law and reasonable adults. Every kid’s body has its own schedule. Late bloomers aren’t uncommon at all. There are pre-pubescent 14 year-olds. Defending pedophiles in the name of gay rights also seems kinda homophobic.
@dwes09: I’m just using the English language definition. Pretty sure a guy that rapes 14 year-old boys and has child porn on his computer counts as a pedo to more than just the Christian right.
@Masc Pride: “This was a 14 year old kid, not a consenting adult.”
Statutory rape laws recognize that the consent of a pubescent/post-pubescent individual can be real consent, and are not the same as laws dealing with rape as a violent sexual assault. Judges have a great deal of leeway in statutory rape situations, and as has been pointed out to you, exercise leniency generally where heterosexual activity is involved.
“leading to a country where predators have more rights than their victims”
AH! Perhaps you ARE a member of the Christian Right. You will have to provide actual proof that predators have more rights than their victims. And not being treated as if they are in jail in Somalia or Saudi Arabia does not count. The Bill of Rights still applies to those incarcerated, for better or worse.
@Masc Pride: He was not charged with rape. That is simply a misuse of the term by Queerty. All the articles refer to the charges as statutory rape, (once again) a very different charge with very different implications. And that charge indicates the law HAS recognized the level of physical maturity of the 14 year old involved.
There is no “English language” definition of what is entirely a legal and psychiatric/psychological term; there is only popular misuse. You are doing exactly the same thing as those members of the Christian right who insist on using the lay meaning of “theory” even after being informed that a scientific theory is an entirely different thing. Perhaps the website you should be going to is World Net Daily or Breitbart, rather than Queerty. I am not defending Dozers, simply pointing out the dangers of basing response on emotions and misunderstandings rather than facts. He should go to jail, and the 14 year old should be punished as well for defrauding (the only way he could have gotten on a sex site) and soliciting as a minor. It is obvious he is not entirely a victim.
@dwes09: False. There is definitely an English language definition of the word. You can whine about the Christian right and believe I’m a part of it all you want, won’t change the fact that this animal is off the streets for a long time. Since Dozer has TONS of time on his hands now, you should write him to let him know just how much support the gay community has for an HIV+ pedo that likes to bareback 14 year-old boys and view kiddie porn. Heartwarming.
@Masc Pride: “Defending pedophiles in the name of gay rights also seems kinda homophobic.”
Once again, he was not charged with pedophilia, he was charged with statutory rape…the implication being that the teenager was post-pubescent. And I did not see in the article that he was CHARGED with possession of child pornography. Considering the lengthy sentences that come with that conviction, if it was actually child porn I expect he would have been charged with that as well.
And how EXACTLY is pointing out the documented disparity in sentencing between those involved in sex with young women or young men “defending pedophiles in the name of gay rights”? Especially when there is nobody in the legal or law enforcement or psychological fields calling this guy a pedophile (for like the third time, statutory rape is NOT pedophilia). Personally I think those who are actually convicted of pedophilia should be chemically castrated, but there is no indication of pedophilia at all in the legal proceedings here as reported.
Facts always matter more than feelings or imagination. Always.
I think it’s weird that this guy would get so much more time than somebody who stalked a stranger, beat raped and robed them.
Why do the court systems think that apparently brutalizing and raping an adult should get somebody 2-5 years, and then this crime gets 33. Seems like a large disconnect.
And don’t get me started on the Philly gay bashers two of whom got probation and the woman only did a few months in jail because she wouldn’t take the plea.
That’s scandalous. He should have robbed a bank, killing the guard. He’d have gotten less time and might have gotten away with it. Some 14 year olds know what they want. Not saying you should but 33 years for a non violent act? One day, sentences like this will be studied and used as examples of how barbaric and ignorant we still are.
OK. Here is my take on it. Dozer is getting what he deserves. BUT I do think some of the other crimes mentioned should have greater sentences attached to them. I think murderers should get just as much time as Dozer is getting. The guy who killed Islan Nettles only got 12 years. 12 years compared to Dozer’s 25 to 33 years. The boyfriend of Jessica Dutro who helped her kill her FOUR year old son because they believed he was gay…guess what? He got only 12 years. She got life, he needs to get life too. Pedro Jones who punched a 17 month old toddler to death that he thought acted “too feminine”, got 16 years compared to Dozer’s 25 to 33. So yes, Dozer is getting EXACTLY what he deserves as far as I am concerned….but many murderers are NOT. That needs to be changed.
@dwes09: “False. There is definitely an English language definition of the word.”
Here’s the definition:
“Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.” You may have a definition you use, but according to the actual definition of the word, it does not apply in this case, and he was not charged with that crime. Other than his possible passing of HIV to the 14 year old, pedophilia is a far worse crime than what he committed in terms of physical and possibly emotional damage.
My objections to opinion based on emotion rather than fact extends to both those on the right and those on the left (like the gentleman who assumes any distaste for effeminacy stems from issues with one’s father).
@dwes09: Apparently he was charged for child porn as well. Dozer’s real name is Christopher Steele:
“In October 2014, a federal jury convicted Steele of charges of using an interstate commerce facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual conduct, interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and receipt of child pornography.”
@Stache: An HIV+ 33 y.o. barebacks a 14 y.o. and had child porn in his possession, yet it’s his lawyer that you feel should be ashamed here? Explains so much about previous posts.
@dwes09: All of your posts seem to be so right and on target.
A 14 year old who’s on a gay sex web site is really NOT pre-pubescent. At about the same age, 50 years ago, I cruised restrooms with glory holes and got really turned on,but I never did anything, even at 15 when my family went to Yosemite. Now, when adolescents mature earlier and they can cruise gay hook-up sites on line, our legal system still seems to be stuck in “The Scarlet Letter” age. Most Western Eurpean countries have changed the legal age of consent to 14 or 15, and in the US,. Straight males have been marrying (often their cousins) girls even younger. Just look at the Mormons. So I guess Dozer made a bad decision after meeting the guy he assumed was a twink male of legal age.
As for the HIV issue, Dozer has ALLWAYS been a bottom, at least in every porn scene I’ve seen. If he was on meds and his HIV was undetectable, all the hoopla and extra years, are just NOT a factor. According to all the latest studies, transmitting HIV when you are undetectable is impossible.
Still, you have to ask whether the extra years are logical or a result of homophobia in the judicial system. I tend to think it’s the latter.
@jimontp: Since it appears he was also tried and convicted for child porn, I have to temper my feelings about the sentencing. Child pornography often victimizes children horribly, and to have it in one’s possession is to be complicit in the damage it does.
@dwes09: In the same way that the term paedophile gets hopelessly misused in the USA to label 18-year-olds having sex with a 17-year-olds, it’ll also depend on what was being classified as child porn.
Reading the follow up article on Dozer, the teen eventually tested negative and from what I understand, the porn found on Dozer phone were pics that the same teen sent to him. It should b noted that the teen filmed his school mates undressing and sent the video to a man in Oklahoma, who got caught with it.
Sounds like the kid had a real active part in it. Dozer and his buddies didn’t have to woo this kid over. The kid actively sought them out and was responsible for giving out the child porn himself.
Not taking a side in this. Adults should always take responsibility over kids. It’s just when you hear the facts it’s not as simple as the older man luring the innocent young boy out and raping him. Amazing that they never took any of that in consideration. Seems odd.
@dwes09: Yep, temper your feelings. Weren’t you just complaining about people forming opinions based on emotions instead of getting the facts? And yet through all your lengthy and impassioned replies, it seems you didn’t have all the facts here. Found it very odd that someone caught with child porn would not be charged for it. I googled to find out more, which you could’ve done as well if you weren’t so busy acting like you had a PhD in pedophiles.
I hear all the queerty lawyers at work on here which is good to read, but I have one question. Where was the parents? Why wasn’t his phone moderated to see what your child is up to?
@jimontp: I agree with some of what your saying. However, Dozer has admitted in court documents to knowing the kid was underage. Text messages between them prove that.
I think the price he’s paying is too high but lets not paint the guy as some victim here.
“While his attorneys previously stated that he did not know the boy he had sex with was underage, new court documents show that he has changed his tune and acknowledges he knew the boy was under 16.”
“Detectives alleged Steele expressed that he did not care if the victim was underage, telling the boy, “I kinda (sic) like my guys young,” according to the criminal complaint.”
@Stache: Why should his lawyer hold his head in shame? Because he represented someone charged with a heinous crime? Or because he did not do a proper job of defending him. As a lawyer with over 30 years in the field, I am proud that I have been able to stand up for my clients in court as part of a great tradition going back almost 1000 years in Anglo-Saxon law and even farther in Roman law. It is the duty of a lawyer to offer the best possible defense for his clients within the confines of the law.
@Juanjo: Stache likes to go for being a contrarian. Just look at how he keeps saying he’s not taking sides and then vehemently argues in favor of Dozer. He’s probably a fan. Plus, even for the best lawyer, defending someone with these types of FEDERAL charges is really an uphill battle to say the least. The whole thing was a pretty serious sting that even involved Homeland Security.
@Juanjo: @Masc Pride: Not at all.
1. I find it hard to believe he could’ve done worse just on his own. his lawyer did a shitty job.
2. There are no victims here. The kid was out soliciting for sex. He got just what he wanted.
3. I agree that Dozer should’ve been the adult and stayed away and deserves punishment.
4. The sentence does not fit the crime. In CA he would’ve gotten 4 years max for the rape charge.
5. Dozer was given a Life Sentence for a victimless crime.
@Stache: “I think the price he’s paying is too high but lets not paint the guy as some victim here.”
I couldn’t agree more. That does seem to be a high price to pay considering had this “kid” not put his profile on that site none of this would have happened. I see the same thing on pornsites. Many of those “kids” posted that stuff themselves and couldn’t care less who sees it, including their parents. This is a weird world we live in and it knows it can’t continue persecuting people for jumping at those carrots that these kids ARE dangling in front of Centaurs who are going to go for it. I do not see an innocent victim here anymore than I saw innocent victims during that Sesame Street puppeteer episode a few years back.
@Tyrone Johnston: I think he’s being adequately punished. Keep in mind that even after his sentence is served, he’s a sex offender for life, which pretty much ruins a person’s life on “the outside”.
@Stache: Is this more of you “not taking sides”? lol
It seems all of Dozer’s apologists are failing to see the bright side here: he can get fingercuffed as much as he wants while in the slam, and he’s got LOTS of time to do it! lol
@Masc Pride……………..”I think he’s being adequately punished.”
It sounds like you have never been locked up before (I spent seven hours behind bars and will never forget it) because if you had you would know what it is like to want to walk out at night and just look at the sky, breath some fresh air and appreciate being alive. Incarceration that long, especially when you were more or less lured in by a kid, amounts to cruel punishment. That kid is not as innocent as it might seem once one stops long enough and thinks about just what did transpire.
@Bob LaBlah: Bob this to me is akin to being locked up for a crime you didn’t commit. I can’t even imagine the pain and horror of it. I too have been locked up for 7 hours. It’s inconceivable to me. Once they find out he’s a child rapist they’ll make his life a living hell. Death would be preferable.
Dozer isn’t the only one that’s being charged for having sex with this kid. 6 others are too. Not saying what they did was right. Kids should always be hands off no matter what. Just that where’s the responsibility of the kid and his parents.
@Stache: I meant to thank you for that posting but forgot. I saw a few of the other guys who were charged with having sex with this kid (and I do mean one of them was CUTE and didn’t look a day over twenty-one himself). What I am beginning to think is this; it may have been his (Dozier) attitude that got him in trouble. Now mind you, I was NOT present at the trial.
This is just my opinion. In a case like that you don’t want to project arrogance and disdain and that’s just what he may have projected during the trial. He didnt have a leg to stand on from jump street (HIV) regardless of this dumb, horny-ass kid. He was no different than the kid in Missouri who was recently sentenced to the equivalent of life behind bars for unprotected sex. He too was muscular, cute………..the type a gay person would go for. Only they both had HIV and didn’t reveal it to their “victim.” The laws of the land are a bitch, huh?
@Masc…….I thought so. If you’ve ever had a steel door close behind you and heard the lock go in place you would never forget it. And you wouldn’t be quick to condemn some one else to that for the rest of their lives, though some do get just what they asked for. In this case I don’t think the guy was “asking” for that type of sentence.
I frankly would have loved hooking up with a porn star at 14. Would a female porn star have been sentenced to decades in prison for having sex with a 14 year old boy? No, because that is the straight male dream, after all. 14 is above the age of consent in some of Western Europe, by the way. And he is probably undetectable, making the HIV irrelevant.
Oh and let’s distinguish between children and 14 year old adolescents. Shakespeare’s Juliet was supposed to be 13, for example. I am myself not attracted to anyone under 30, but I doubt what he had was really “child” porn. I would guess most guys who have watched online porn will have the odd under-18 in some random clips that may have loaded in their browser history.
@notevenwrong: Let’s wait until an HIV+ female porn star is convicted of barebacking with a minor before we determine she would absolutely experience a different outcome. You’re doing lots of guessing. It’s a good thing we have laws and a justice system to get down to solid facts in cases like this.
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Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
In PA it’s up to 20 years in prison for statutory rape of a minor, but this involves homosexuality so expect the worst, harshest, longest sentence. I’m surprised he didn’t get life. When you’re gay and you commit atrocities like this, expect the worst most harsh sentences as opposed to your straight counter-parts.
roger_holzem
What he did was wrong but a longer sentence for being gay is unacceptable! That means the law looks at us differently and that my friends is discrimination! Unacceptable what he did but also unnacceptable two sentences one for state and one for county! Who does this? Where is his attorney? Sleeping perhaps?
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Sentencing maximums for rape of a minor by state:
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2003/olrdata/jud/rpt/2003-r-0376.htm
Masc Pride
…and that predator deserves every single day of it. It’s silly and ignorant to try and paint Dozier as a victim of a homophobic justice system. Dozier is an animal that absolutely should receive the maximum sentence permissible by law. What if he had violated YOUR kid?
Billy Budd
He lives in the US so he must pay for what he did. But here in Brazil he would not be convicted. Well, he WOULD, but not because of the 14yo. He would be put in jail because child porn is strictly forbidden in Brazil. I do believe the sentence was too harsh.
roger_holzem
I agree with you! I feel he did wrong but getting a longer sentence because you’re gay is unacceptable!
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Masc Pride: Regardless of how heinous a crime, prisoners have rights too. Especially gay prisoners who face immense discrimination by the legal and jusrice system.
Marky
He’d get less time if he was the kids’ mother and just killed the kid. Not to reduce the gravity of the crime… 33 years is a bit much for a non-murder charge.
Stache
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: This whole story is really interesting and sad. Dozer was part of a sex ring that used this kid for sex. His own partner committed suicide rather then go through all of this.
Of coarse homophobia will play a part. Look at someone like Mary Kay Letourneau. She was caught doing a 13 year old. She’s straight and being a women gets her a slap on the wrist sentence of 80 days and the rest probation.
Not saying that he doesn’t deserve time. The sentence is ridiculous though.
Stache
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: Interesting. In my state of CA it all depends on the age difference but even at that they’re very lenient compared to states like PA. Even still the maximum is 20 years.
They really threw the book at Dozer. Him being positive didn’t help of coarse but everyone knew he was a positive porn star.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Stache: Exactly.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Stache: I’ve read about some cases involving gay defendants where the majority of the jury believed that “gay was a choice” and that “being gay was a sin”. Can you imagine your life in these people’s hands? Frightening.
Stache
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: Yup. The same attitude towards a black man accused of raping a white women in pre civil rights Alabama my guess.
I’ve been in one of those juries. Even today you better believe jury homophobia is still a thing.
Masc Pride
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: There is no disregarding how heinous the crime was. This is 33 years Dozer won’t be able to do this to another minor. Again, if this was your raped and now possibly HIV-infected (for life) child, I highly doubt you’d be claiming Dozer’s punishment is unjust. Pedophiles and rapists absolutely should rot in jail — gay or straight.
roger_holzem
This kid wasn’t in danger! It was in poor taste to not use a condom but being HIV positive and non detectable you cannot pass it on! Do some research before making such claims! Being HIV positive I’m fairly certain I know more about the illness than you do? I’ve spent hours upon hours with my physician going over every scenario! People need to stop stigmatizing this illness or nobody will get treated! That my friends is when the real problems will begin! People not on treatment having say 3 encounters per week without knowing and passing it! They intern have 3 encounters per week! Do you see where this is going quickly? Do you?
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Stache: It is. Good comparison!
Masc Pride
@Stache: Seems like a good reason not to rape women and children, no? lol
Stache
@Masc Pride: I’m the last to defend guys like this. However, it was consensual and no one got hurt. Yet he’s getting a sentence that’s worse then murder.
No one here is saying what he did was right and that he doesn’t deserve punishment. Make noo mistake. This is a special punishment for gay men.
roger_holzem
I’m with you 100 percent! I’m wondering if any legal groups would step in to help him? He’s not innocent of all crime but certainly the sentences were far too harsh! He didn’t deserve more time than given for murder! My Aunt was murdered and raped stapled 32 times! Killer got 8 years in Wisconsin! If he had been gay and it was a man he probably would’ve gotten 50 years? Why not even it out and make. Otha like 20 years
Poncho Sanchez
I’m not certain why the kid was on the adult apps, (I wasnt that advanced at 14 years old), but the kid got a crash course on the dark side of gay life.
Bob LaBlah
@Stache: “Look at someone like Mary Kay Letourneau.”
To this day I can’t figure out what she saw in that ugly little ba-tard to make her leave her husband and kids. I mean get real. As in pull out the magnifying glass and tweezers, if you get my drift.
As for this guy and that kid I take the fifth, your honor. I see BOTH as being guilty here and do not believe many of these kids and their “traumatic” memories are every thing else but that. I didn’t know about the boyfriend committing suicide. Do you have the link to the “scoop”, as in details about what actually transpired from the front door kick down and on? Thanks.
Bob LaBlah
@Stache: “Look at someone like Mary Kay Letourneau.”
To this day I can’t figure out what she saw in that ugly little ba-tard to make her leave her husband and kids. I mean get real. As in pull out the magnifying glass and tweezers, if you get my drift.
Stache
@Bob LaBlah: http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/Local/birdsboro-men-among-6-charged-in-child-sex-case/25658924
Stache
@Bob LaBlah: The Sword .com did a better story on it IMO but queerty won’t allow me to post their link.
Yeah, you had to go there. Lol I guess she just likes em young and maybe she got tired of her white husband. If I’m going to be doing time for someone they better be hot and hung as hell.
Masc Pride
@Stache: This was a 14 year old kid, not a consenting adult. How do you know that no one was hurt? These guys didn’t care about the rights of the individuals they violated, yet if they’re treated unfairly we’re supposed to care about their rights as criminals? I’m sorry but that’s the exact mentality that’s leading to a country where predators have more rights than their victims. Like I said, for criminals that obviously don’t care anything about anyone else, fear of unjust punishment is a great reason to not violate others (though it shouldn’t be the only reason).
dwes09
@Masc Pride: Post pubescent teenagers are not “children”, except to the christian right and others who see the world through a specific unrealistic lens. And statutory rape is not the same (necessarily) as violent sexual assault, as the statutes themselves recognize.
Certainly a reasonable adult should not have sex with a legal minor less than half their age, and does not withhold HIV status from someone likely to be ignorant of its importance. This is not, however, pedophilia either in a legal or psychological sense, and there is a long history of liaisons with this kind of age disparity throughout history (especially involving marriages between men and very young women…not always forced as we’d all like to believe). Teenagers are as likely to be the sexual aggressors in situations like this, and it is not always the younger one who is the victim. When I was in around 30 I had sex with a 15 year old who had used fake ID to get into the baths in Manhattan. Given his height and body hair he easily passed for 20 and only told me the truth afterwards (and he was clearly VERY experienced as a top). Scared the shit out of me as he could have used his age to blackmail both me and the facility we were at.
Let’s leave the emotional and uninformed responses to the heterosexuals who demonstrate all the time that they are much more upset by their young men being “turned gay” than by their young women being abused (look at the shorter sentence given to that Subway guy who was into actual children, but only girls). Sex with those much younger is most often a lapse of judgement, not the act of a “predator”. Had Dozer been 20-21 (probably his intellectual age) the sex would not necessarily have been considered statutory rape in many states. The predatory act is the callous withholding of HIV status, and the failure to protect a partner likely to be naive where HIV is concerned.
dwes09
@Masc Pride: Please learn what the legal and psychological definition of a pedophile is. You are using the Christian Right definition, not the real one. And also learn the difference between Rape (in the sense of sexual assault) and Statutory Rape (what Dozeer was actually charged with, and which is quite often involves understood consent on the part of both parties).
Masc Pride
@dwes09: How about we leave the defending of pedophiles to pedophiles? 14 year-olds are children in the eyes of the law and reasonable adults. Every kid’s body has its own schedule. Late bloomers aren’t uncommon at all. There are pre-pubescent 14 year-olds. Defending pedophiles in the name of gay rights also seems kinda homophobic.
Masc Pride
@dwes09: I’m just using the English language definition. Pretty sure a guy that rapes 14 year-old boys and has child porn on his computer counts as a pedo to more than just the Christian right.
dwes09
@Masc Pride: “This was a 14 year old kid, not a consenting adult.”
Statutory rape laws recognize that the consent of a pubescent/post-pubescent individual can be real consent, and are not the same as laws dealing with rape as a violent sexual assault. Judges have a great deal of leeway in statutory rape situations, and as has been pointed out to you, exercise leniency generally where heterosexual activity is involved.
“leading to a country where predators have more rights than their victims”
AH! Perhaps you ARE a member of the Christian Right. You will have to provide actual proof that predators have more rights than their victims. And not being treated as if they are in jail in Somalia or Saudi Arabia does not count. The Bill of Rights still applies to those incarcerated, for better or worse.
dwes09
@Masc Pride: He was not charged with rape. That is simply a misuse of the term by Queerty. All the articles refer to the charges as statutory rape, (once again) a very different charge with very different implications. And that charge indicates the law HAS recognized the level of physical maturity of the 14 year old involved.
There is no “English language” definition of what is entirely a legal and psychiatric/psychological term; there is only popular misuse. You are doing exactly the same thing as those members of the Christian right who insist on using the lay meaning of “theory” even after being informed that a scientific theory is an entirely different thing. Perhaps the website you should be going to is World Net Daily or Breitbart, rather than Queerty. I am not defending Dozers, simply pointing out the dangers of basing response on emotions and misunderstandings rather than facts. He should go to jail, and the 14 year old should be punished as well for defrauding (the only way he could have gotten on a sex site) and soliciting as a minor. It is obvious he is not entirely a victim.
Masc Pride
@dwes09: False. There is definitely an English language definition of the word. You can whine about the Christian right and believe I’m a part of it all you want, won’t change the fact that this animal is off the streets for a long time. Since Dozer has TONS of time on his hands now, you should write him to let him know just how much support the gay community has for an HIV+ pedo that likes to bareback 14 year-old boys and view kiddie porn. Heartwarming.
dwes09
@Masc Pride: “Defending pedophiles in the name of gay rights also seems kinda homophobic.”
Once again, he was not charged with pedophilia, he was charged with statutory rape…the implication being that the teenager was post-pubescent. And I did not see in the article that he was CHARGED with possession of child pornography. Considering the lengthy sentences that come with that conviction, if it was actually child porn I expect he would have been charged with that as well.
And how EXACTLY is pointing out the documented disparity in sentencing between those involved in sex with young women or young men “defending pedophiles in the name of gay rights”? Especially when there is nobody in the legal or law enforcement or psychological fields calling this guy a pedophile (for like the third time, statutory rape is NOT pedophilia). Personally I think those who are actually convicted of pedophilia should be chemically castrated, but there is no indication of pedophilia at all in the legal proceedings here as reported.
Facts always matter more than feelings or imagination. Always.
DCguy
I think it’s weird that this guy would get so much more time than somebody who stalked a stranger, beat raped and robed them.
Why do the court systems think that apparently brutalizing and raping an adult should get somebody 2-5 years, and then this crime gets 33. Seems like a large disconnect.
And don’t get me started on the Philly gay bashers two of whom got probation and the woman only did a few months in jail because she wouldn’t take the plea.
Doughosier
That’s scandalous. He should have robbed a bank, killing the guard. He’d have gotten less time and might have gotten away with it. Some 14 year olds know what they want. Not saying you should but 33 years for a non violent act? One day, sentences like this will be studied and used as examples of how barbaric and ignorant we still are.
DarkZephyr
OK. Here is my take on it. Dozer is getting what he deserves. BUT I do think some of the other crimes mentioned should have greater sentences attached to them. I think murderers should get just as much time as Dozer is getting. The guy who killed Islan Nettles only got 12 years. 12 years compared to Dozer’s 25 to 33 years. The boyfriend of Jessica Dutro who helped her kill her FOUR year old son because they believed he was gay…guess what? He got only 12 years. She got life, he needs to get life too. Pedro Jones who punched a 17 month old toddler to death that he thought acted “too feminine”, got 16 years compared to Dozer’s 25 to 33. So yes, Dozer is getting EXACTLY what he deserves as far as I am concerned….but many murderers are NOT. That needs to be changed.
dwes09
@dwes09: “False. There is definitely an English language definition of the word.”
Here’s the definition:
“Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.” You may have a definition you use, but according to the actual definition of the word, it does not apply in this case, and he was not charged with that crime. Other than his possible passing of HIV to the 14 year old, pedophilia is a far worse crime than what he committed in terms of physical and possibly emotional damage.
My objections to opinion based on emotion rather than fact extends to both those on the right and those on the left (like the gentleman who assumes any distaste for effeminacy stems from issues with one’s father).
Masc Pride
@dwes09: Apparently he was charged for child porn as well. Dozer’s real name is Christopher Steele:
“In October 2014, a federal jury convicted Steele of charges of using an interstate commerce facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual conduct, interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and receipt of child pornography.”
http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20160419/porn-star-may-be-classified-a-predator-in-limerick-child-sex-case
Masc Pride
*charged AND convicted
Masc Pride
Edit: Apparently he was charged AND convicted for child porn as well.
Stache
@Masc Pride: Whoever was his lawyer should hold their head in shame though.
Masc Pride
@Stache: An HIV+ 33 y.o. barebacks a 14 y.o. and had child porn in his possession, yet it’s his lawyer that you feel should be ashamed here? Explains so much about previous posts.
jimontp
@dwes09: All of your posts seem to be so right and on target.
A 14 year old who’s on a gay sex web site is really NOT pre-pubescent. At about the same age, 50 years ago, I cruised restrooms with glory holes and got really turned on,but I never did anything, even at 15 when my family went to Yosemite. Now, when adolescents mature earlier and they can cruise gay hook-up sites on line, our legal system still seems to be stuck in “The Scarlet Letter” age. Most Western Eurpean countries have changed the legal age of consent to 14 or 15, and in the US,. Straight males have been marrying (often their cousins) girls even younger. Just look at the Mormons. So I guess Dozer made a bad decision after meeting the guy he assumed was a twink male of legal age.
As for the HIV issue, Dozer has ALLWAYS been a bottom, at least in every porn scene I’ve seen. If he was on meds and his HIV was undetectable, all the hoopla and extra years, are just NOT a factor. According to all the latest studies, transmitting HIV when you are undetectable is impossible.
Still, you have to ask whether the extra years are logical or a result of homophobia in the judicial system. I tend to think it’s the latter.
dwes09
@Masc Pride: Well, that’s a whole other thing and certainly should contribute to the length of his sentence!
dwes09
@jimontp: Since it appears he was also tried and convicted for child porn, I have to temper my feelings about the sentencing. Child pornography often victimizes children horribly, and to have it in one’s possession is to be complicit in the damage it does.
jjunke
no way defending this guys behaviour, but what was this 14 yo doing on this site ?
Tobi
@dwes09: In the same way that the term paedophile gets hopelessly misused in the USA to label 18-year-olds having sex with a 17-year-olds, it’ll also depend on what was being classified as child porn.
Poncho Sanchez
Reading the follow up article on Dozer, the teen eventually tested negative and from what I understand, the porn found on Dozer phone were pics that the same teen sent to him. It should b noted that the teen filmed his school mates undressing and sent the video to a man in Oklahoma, who got caught with it.
Stache
Sounds like the kid had a real active part in it. Dozer and his buddies didn’t have to woo this kid over. The kid actively sought them out and was responsible for giving out the child porn himself.
Not taking a side in this. Adults should always take responsibility over kids. It’s just when you hear the facts it’s not as simple as the older man luring the innocent young boy out and raping him. Amazing that they never took any of that in consideration. Seems odd.
Masc Pride
@dwes09: Yep, temper your feelings. Weren’t you just complaining about people forming opinions based on emotions instead of getting the facts? And yet through all your lengthy and impassioned replies, it seems you didn’t have all the facts here. Found it very odd that someone caught with child porn would not be charged for it. I googled to find out more, which you could’ve done as well if you weren’t so busy acting like you had a PhD in pedophiles.
dre23222
I hear all the queerty lawyers at work on here which is good to read, but I have one question. Where was the parents? Why wasn’t his phone moderated to see what your child is up to?
Stache
@jimontp: I agree with some of what your saying. However, Dozer has admitted in court documents to knowing the kid was underage. Text messages between them prove that.
dre23222
@jimontp: your statement makes since to me
Stache
I think the price he’s paying is too high but lets not paint the guy as some victim here.
“While his attorneys previously stated that he did not know the boy he had sex with was underage, new court documents show that he has changed his tune and acknowledges he knew the boy was under 16.”
“Detectives alleged Steele expressed that he did not care if the victim was underage, telling the boy, “I kinda (sic) like my guys young,” according to the criminal complaint.”
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/02/303854/
onthemark
When he gets out of prison, will he want to become a high school teacher? For some reason that’s the default career change for washed-up porn actors!
Juanjo
@Stache: Why should his lawyer hold his head in shame? Because he represented someone charged with a heinous crime? Or because he did not do a proper job of defending him. As a lawyer with over 30 years in the field, I am proud that I have been able to stand up for my clients in court as part of a great tradition going back almost 1000 years in Anglo-Saxon law and even farther in Roman law. It is the duty of a lawyer to offer the best possible defense for his clients within the confines of the law.
mmichael_24
@Billy Budd: Yes we all know that in Brazil you’re allowed to have sex with a 14 y/o how many times do you feel the need to post it?
Billy Budd
@mmichael_24: As many times as necessary. I will decide when it is enough.
Masc Pride
@Juanjo: Stache likes to go for being a contrarian. Just look at how he keeps saying he’s not taking sides and then vehemently argues in favor of Dozer. He’s probably a fan. Plus, even for the best lawyer, defending someone with these types of FEDERAL charges is really an uphill battle to say the least. The whole thing was a pretty serious sting that even involved Homeland Security.
Stache
@Juanjo: @Masc Pride: Not at all.
1. I find it hard to believe he could’ve done worse just on his own. his lawyer did a shitty job.
2. There are no victims here. The kid was out soliciting for sex. He got just what he wanted.
3. I agree that Dozer should’ve been the adult and stayed away and deserves punishment.
4. The sentence does not fit the crime. In CA he would’ve gotten 4 years max for the rape charge.
5. Dozer was given a Life Sentence for a victimless crime.
Bob LaBlah
@Stache: “I think the price he’s paying is too high but lets not paint the guy as some victim here.”
I couldn’t agree more. That does seem to be a high price to pay considering had this “kid” not put his profile on that site none of this would have happened. I see the same thing on pornsites. Many of those “kids” posted that stuff themselves and couldn’t care less who sees it, including their parents. This is a weird world we live in and it knows it can’t continue persecuting people for jumping at those carrots that these kids ARE dangling in front of Centaurs who are going to go for it. I do not see an innocent victim here anymore than I saw innocent victims during that Sesame Street puppeteer episode a few years back.
Tyrone Johnston
He should have been sentenced to many more years than what he got. He got off without a severe punishment.
Masc Pride
@Tyrone Johnston: I think he’s being adequately punished. Keep in mind that even after his sentence is served, he’s a sex offender for life, which pretty much ruins a person’s life on “the outside”.
@Stache: Is this more of you “not taking sides”? lol
It seems all of Dozer’s apologists are failing to see the bright side here: he can get fingercuffed as much as he wants while in the slam, and he’s got LOTS of time to do it! lol
Bob LaBlah
@Masc Pride……………..”I think he’s being adequately punished.”
It sounds like you have never been locked up before (I spent seven hours behind bars and will never forget it) because if you had you would know what it is like to want to walk out at night and just look at the sky, breath some fresh air and appreciate being alive. Incarceration that long, especially when you were more or less lured in by a kid, amounts to cruel punishment. That kid is not as innocent as it might seem once one stops long enough and thinks about just what did transpire.
Stache
@Bob LaBlah: Bob this to me is akin to being locked up for a crime you didn’t commit. I can’t even imagine the pain and horror of it. I too have been locked up for 7 hours. It’s inconceivable to me. Once they find out he’s a child rapist they’ll make his life a living hell. Death would be preferable.
Dozer isn’t the only one that’s being charged for having sex with this kid. 6 others are too. Not saying what they did was right. Kids should always be hands off no matter what. Just that where’s the responsibility of the kid and his parents.
Masc Pride
@Bob LaBlah: I have never been locked up before; that is correct. lol
Bob LaBlah
@Stache: I meant to thank you for that posting but forgot. I saw a few of the other guys who were charged with having sex with this kid (and I do mean one of them was CUTE and didn’t look a day over twenty-one himself). What I am beginning to think is this; it may have been his (Dozier) attitude that got him in trouble. Now mind you, I was NOT present at the trial.
This is just my opinion. In a case like that you don’t want to project arrogance and disdain and that’s just what he may have projected during the trial. He didnt have a leg to stand on from jump street (HIV) regardless of this dumb, horny-ass kid. He was no different than the kid in Missouri who was recently sentenced to the equivalent of life behind bars for unprotected sex. He too was muscular, cute………..the type a gay person would go for. Only they both had HIV and didn’t reveal it to their “victim.” The laws of the land are a bitch, huh?
Bob LaBlah
@Masc…….I thought so. If you’ve ever had a steel door close behind you and heard the lock go in place you would never forget it. And you wouldn’t be quick to condemn some one else to that for the rest of their lives, though some do get just what they asked for. In this case I don’t think the guy was “asking” for that type of sentence.
Masc Pride
@Bob LaBlah: So you’re saying I’d have to go to jail to understand your point of view? No thanks! lol
I’d be quick to condemn anyone who was federally charged and CONVICTED of behavior this disgusting and uncivilized.
Do we know that this 14 y.o. is not infected now?
notevenwrong
I frankly would have loved hooking up with a porn star at 14. Would a female porn star have been sentenced to decades in prison for having sex with a 14 year old boy? No, because that is the straight male dream, after all. 14 is above the age of consent in some of Western Europe, by the way. And he is probably undetectable, making the HIV irrelevant.
notevenwrong
Oh and let’s distinguish between children and 14 year old adolescents. Shakespeare’s Juliet was supposed to be 13, for example. I am myself not attracted to anyone under 30, but I doubt what he had was really “child” porn. I would guess most guys who have watched online porn will have the odd under-18 in some random clips that may have loaded in their browser history.
Masc Pride
@notevenwrong: Let’s wait until an HIV+ female porn star is convicted of barebacking with a minor before we determine she would absolutely experience a different outcome. You’re doing lots of guessing. It’s a good thing we have laws and a justice system to get down to solid facts in cases like this.