Surgeon Who Tried to Buy Kids Off Mother Claims he Was High on Ecstasy Laced With Meth

A man in California was convicted of 16 years in prison for sex crimes including attempting to buy two young girls off their mother. The man, 38-year-old Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, claimed he was high on ecstasy laced with meth before the incident which occurred in 2019.

Lavorini-Doyle, a Yale-educated oral surgeon in Oakland, California, was sentenced Wednesday morning after pleading guilty to several charges including attempting to sex traffic minors and possessing and attempting to produce child pornography.

There are additional charges pending against him in Contra Costa County for active kidnapping and human trafficking.

During the trial, Lavorini-Doyle admitted to approaching a woman and her two daughters, ages 10 and 11, at an office building. According to police, he offered the mother $30,000 to "buy her two daughters for the night." The mother rejected and immediately called the police.

Lavorini-Doyle was at the office building to consult a financial advisor about his more than $700,000 debt, Mercury News reported. Lavorini-Doyle was briefly stopped by police after the incident but was released.

In court, his attorneys argued that he had taken six tablets of ecstasy that he believed were laced with methamphetamine before he approached the mother. His attorneys also claimed that although he had a "perverse desire and corrupt intent to have sex with minors," he never successfully did so, Mercury News reported.

According to the Department of Justice, child sexual exploitation and abuse is a growing epidemic in the United States and globally. "Individuals can now use websites and social media to advertise, schedule, and purchase sexual encounters with minors," the Department of Justice website states. "The Internet and mobile devices also allow pimps and traffickers to reach a larger clientele base than in the past, which may expose victims to greater risks and dangers."

With the introduction of the internet, the buying and selling of child victims become easier and more anonymous. The Polaris Project, a nonprofit that works to combat human trafficking, saw more than 11,500 cases of human trafficking through the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

The day after attempting to buy the two girls, Lavorini-Doyle traveled to Cambodia with $10,000 cash as well as a new camera, zip ties, and duct tape. He admitted he intended to use the money to pay for child sex acts while abroad, but claimed that he did not locate any victims during the trip. The day before he returned, police searched Lavorini-Doyle's home and seized several electronic devices.

When he returned home the next day, authorities seized additional electronic devices and found over 100 videos of child pornography. He later admitted that his purpose for traveling to Cambodia was to "engage in commercial sex with minors."

During his plea hearing, Lavorini-Doyle also admitted to arranging "sex dates" with a female sex worker's children in 2018. He said he met the woman online but eventually met her in person to discuss the location, time, and payment for the arrangement. He also admitted to recording videos of his sex acts with the two girls, ages 12 and 14.

Police also discovered that he allegedly paid a $55,000 "finders fee" for a man to set up an arrangement between him and a 10-year-old, East Bay Times reported. An arrangement was never made, according to Lavorini-Doyle.

"A search of Lavorini-Doyle's electronic devices revealed that, when he was not seeking out local children for sex, he prowled the dark web for videos of children being sexually exploited, including graphic recordings of girls 10 years old and younger being molested and raped," according to court records written by assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Rubino. "It is no exaggeration to say that Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle is every parent's worst nightmare."