Michael Dolce, a 53-year-old lawyer known for representing child sexual abuse survivors, was arrested by FBI agents at his West Palm Beach, Florida home.
Dolce, who founded a group called Protect Our Kids First Inc., was allegedly laying in his bed and downloading sexually explicit images of children when agents broke down his front door.
According to an FBI affidavit, after Dolce’s arrest, agents found 1,997 images and five videos of child pornography on his computer. The images were of male and female children ages five to 12, including several of a prepubescent girl in a subfolder titled “Sweet Pedo Stars.” Dolce could receive a minimum of 20 years in prison if found guilty of possessing child pornography.
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.
Dolce’s onetime coworkers at Cohen Milstein in Palm Beach County are beside themselves trying to square how one of the firm’s ace litigators in sexual abuse cases could wind up charged with a sexual offense. Dolce, who said he was a survivor of child molestation, built a reputation for handling high-stakes lawsuits and taking an uncompromising stance not only on sexual offenders but on those who enable them.
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