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From the New York Daily News...
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Victim rails: Date this, sicko!
Perv gets 2 yrs. of probation
BY HELEN PETERSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
No, Dan, she would not date you under any circumstance.
That's the message that 23-year-old Thao Nguyen had for the pervert yesterday as he was sentenced to two years probation for public lewdness.
Nguyen was on an R train last summer when raw-food restaurateur Daniel Hoyt, 43, smirked at the young woman as he masturbated, then exposed himself.
But the quick-thinking Web developer shot back, flipping out her cell phone and taking a photo of him en flagrante.
After the photo ran on the cover of the Daily News, Hoyt was identified and arrested.
He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in February, then gave an odd interview to New York magazine claiming that some women like to be flashed.
He even said Nguyen would probably date him if he met her elsewhere.
Instead, Nguyen and a half-dozen supporters protested in front of Manhattan Criminal Court as he was sentenced. She held a sign that read: "Actually, if I met you in a bar, I wouldn't date you!"
Nguyen and supporters from www.Hollabacknyc.com, a Web site inspired by her cell phone photo, missed Hoyt as he left court, but said they wanted to take a stand against harassers.
"She is like the Rosa Parks of street harassment," one of the site's founders, Lauren Spees, 25, said of Nguyen.
A Probation Department report recommended that Hoyt be incarcerated because of a "lack of remorse" shown by his comments, according to Judge Alexander Jeong.
Prosecutor Andrew Zakrocki asked the judge to impose the jail sentence.
But Hoyt's lawyer Michael Bachner protested, claiming the interview took place before Hoyt started undergoing counseling.
"I will impose the sentence promised," Jeong said. He told Hoyt to continue psychiatric counseling and warned that a probation violation could get him 90 days in jail.
"I don't think that is going to help him. He has a background in this, he's been doing it for 10 years," Nguyen said.
According to court records, four other women complained that Hoyt flashed them on the subway in 2004 and 2005. Hoyt was arrested for public lewdness in 1994 but pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
Hoyt didn't speak in court, but later said: "I apologize for my actions and I'm sorry for anyone I may have offended."
Originally published on April 19, 2006
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Somebody also ought to give this guy a 2 year supply of Wet Wipes :-X
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