ST. ANTHONY, Idaho — Just hours after her first day of high school, a 15-year-old girl sat in a Fremont County courtroom and told a full gallery of people, both known to her and not, about her life from the ages of 7 to 12, when she was being sexually assaulted.
Candon Dean Dahle, 22, was sentenced by District Judge Steven Boyce to a minimum of five and a maximum of ten years in prison. Boyce then suspended the sentence and placed Dahle on probation for eight years.
He was also given a 180-day local jail sentence that began on Tuesday. After that, he will be required to complete 200 hours of community service.
Dahle was arrested on Feb. 7 in Provo, Utah, on a juvenile court warrant out of Bingham County for lewd conduct with a child. He was then extradited and booked into the Bingham County Jail in Blackfoot.
He was initially charged in two counties, Fremont and Bingham, both on one count of felony lewd conduct with a child.
Dahle later accepted a plea agreement, where he agreed to plead guilty in Fremont County to amended charges of two counts of felony injury to a child. In return, the prosecution agreed to drop the case in Bingham County and not require Dahle to register as a sex offender while recommending a term of probation at sentencing.
Dahle was a senior baseball pitcher at Brigham Young University in Provo, but is originally from Blackfoot. His athlete information has since been taken off the BYU baseball website.
In February, BYU Media Relations Manager Todd Hollingshead confirmed to EastIdahoNews.com that Dahle was no longer enrolled at BYU. He was first enrolled at BYU in 2024, after transferring from the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.
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