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The Miami New Times reports:
On the evening of March 15, FBI agents smashed open the door to the home of Michael Dolce, a West Palm Beach lawyer who had advocated for and represented sexual abuse survivors for the past 20 years. Armed with three warrants, the agents did not have to search long to find what they were looking for.
“They discovered Dolce actively downloading child pornography using peer-2-peer software,” the Department of Justice alleges.
A longtime Sunday school teacher who was once one of the state’s most prominent advocates for reforming sexual abuse statutes, Dolce is behind bars awaiting his arraignment, scheduled for mid-April. He’s facing a child porn possession charge that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
The Daily Mail reports:
Dolce, 53, earned national recognition for his work to end the statute of limitations for child sexual battery cases in the Sunshine State, and was eventually named one of America’s 500 Leading Lawyers for his work defending child sex abuse victims.
Authorities found multiple windows open on the laptop that included or led them to illicit material. “One sub-folder titled “sweetie” featured an addition[al] sub-folder titled “Sweet-Pedo Stars,” which featured child erotica and child pornography images with the added watermark “PEDO STARs.”‘
Federal authorities say Dolce was using a BitTorrent to anonymously download the images and videos of female child victims estimated to be between 5 to 8 years old, 6 to 10 years old and 9 to 11 years old.
Before his arrest, attorney Michael Dolce built a reputation for handling high-stakes cases and taking an uncompromising stance not only on sexual offenders but on those who enable them. https://t.co/SuC1YsVhij
— Miami New Times (@miaminewtimes) March 31, 2023