A U.S. district judge sentenced an Oakland oral surgeon to 16 years in prison for multiple child sex crimes including sex trafficking and attempted production of child pornography, the United States Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday.
Cassidy Migan Lavorini-Doyle has been held in custody since December, 2019 after he was detained at San Francisco International Airport returning from a flight to Cambodia. On the trip, he brought zip ties, duct tape, a digital camera, an SD card and $10,000 cash and intended to “engage in commercial sex acts with a minor.”
While he was there, officials seized multiple devices at his Oakland home which contained over 100 videos of child pornography involving “minors who had not attained the age of 12, violent sexual conduct, and sexual abuse of infants or toddlers.”
Last May, the 38-year-old plead guilty to all charges levied against him, which include attempted sex trafficking of a child, attempted production of child pornography, traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and the receipt of child pornography.
The judge also ordered him to a lifelong term of supervised release.
In addition to his actions abroad, Lavorini-Doyle confessed to other heinous crimes which "involved sexual abuse or intended sexual abuse of children."
One day before flying to Cambodia, Lavorini-Doyle approached a woman with her two daughters, aged 10 and 11 respectively, in a Walnut Creek parking lot. He offered the mother $30,000 to buy her daughters for the night and admitted to police he "intended to engage in sex acts with the children." The woman yelled “no” and called 911. He was briefly stopped and released by Walnut Creek Police, and the left the country the next day.
In 2018, Lavorini Doyle said he met with a prostitute in Berkeley and arranged "sex dates" with two girls, he believed were 14 and 12 years old. Not only did he engage in sex acts with each individual, he also recorded the encounters without their permission. Detectives later found one of the females to be 18-years-old.
The San Jose Mercury News reported that Lavorini-Doyle’s attorneys argued much of his conduct was due to drug use, mentioning that he had taken six ecstasy tablets, likely laced with methamphetamine, prior to the Walnut Creek incident. The paper also reported that his lawyers said he never succeeded in raping young girls, “despite paying tens of thousands of dollars to scammers who presented him with teenaged adult prostitutes.”
Lavorini-Doyle is scheduled next to appear at Contra Costa County Superior Court where also faces related child sex trafficking state criminal charges.
The joint investigation into Lavorini-Doyle’s crimes was led by Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Walnut Creek Police Department, and the Contra Costa Human Trafficking Task Force.
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