2nd conviction for sex offender

Greg Haidl, one of three young men convicted in March 2005 of the videotaped sexual assault of an unconscious teenager in his father’s Corona del Mar home, pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges of having unlawful sex with a 16-year-old girl at a home in Dana Point in 2004.

Haidl, son of former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl, was then convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. Already serving a six-year sentence for the earlier crime, he was sentenced to six months in custody. Because the time can be served concurrently with the prior sentence, Haidl will spend no extra time behind bars.

Prosecutors said Haidl, 19 at the time of the incident in Dana Point, met the girl at a party he threw the night his first sexual assault trial ended in a mistrial. Two weeks later, he had sex with her at a house where she was housesitting. Police responded to complaints of a barking dog and found Haidl in the bushes.

Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney’s office, said the sentence was the result of a plea bargain. The plea cannot be used against Haidl in a civil suit, though the evidence can. Haidl was not present at the proceedings, and his lawyer turned in the plea.

Along with co-defendants Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann, Haidl was tried a second time and convicted last year of the 2002 videotaped sex crime. Though juveniles when they committed the crimes, they were sentenced as adults. Haidl will be eligible for parole in January 2008.