Former BYU pitcher Candon Dahle received his sentencing recently for sexually assaulting a young girl from when she was 7 years old until she was 12.
Dahle was sentenced to eight years of probation and a 180-day jail sentence, according to KSL News. He also must complete 200 hours of community service.
The 22-year-old was arrested in February and charged in two counties with felony lewd conduct with a child, according to the report.
He later accepted a plea agreement on two lesser charges of felony injury to a child and had his charge in one of the counties dismissed.
Candon Dahle was a pitcher at BYU during the 2024 season. He appeared in 25 games that year, finishing with a 4-2 record and 5.48 ERA. He is no longer a part of the BYU baseball program or enrolled at BYU, according to KSL News.
The report adds that the victim’s family expressed regret over agreeing to a plea agreement while speaking at Dahle’s sentencing.
“I cannot even hug my daughter. Touch repulses her. She cringes and pulls away every time I make an attempt to hug her. Please let that sentence marinate for a minute,” the victim’s father said, per KSL News. “Listening to my daughter, her earliest memories of the abuse she can remember are at the age of 7. I wish I could show you the videos I have on my phone of her at that age. She is truly a gift from my Heavenly Father.
“She is filled with pure, absolute joy. Her laughter is so contagious. To think she had to endure a personal hell until the age of 12 is, at times, too much to bear for me.”
The victim also shared a statement during the sentencing.
“My earliest memory of the abuse is 7 years old, but I know he was touching me before that. Almost every time we were together, Candon was touching me under my clothes. … Some memories are so damaging, because it was me holding in cries of pain while Candon was pleasured,” she said, per KSL News. “I was just 11 years old when he covered my mouth because he didn’t want the family close by to know what he was doing.
“Every single day since I was 7, Candon has made me hate myself. I wake up every morning and have to give myself a reason to stay here. I want Candon to know that many days, I have felt I would have rather he ended my life than forced 7-year-old me to have to live through all those years of what he did to me. You forced me to keep your secret for seven years. I sat through your baseball games, I watched the world cheer for you. I watched you achieve every church standing and be celebrated, all while I screamed inside because I knew the truth.”
Finally, the report states that Dahle’s attorney argued that Dahle should receive three years of probation and no more than 30 days of jail. He argued that many of the sexual assault allegations reportedly happened when his client was a minor, even though the incidents he was sentenced for occurred when Dahle was 18.
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