A 61-year-old convicted sex offender pleaded guilty Monday to soliciting an underage boy in Newport Beach and was immediately sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n
David James Hanggie pleaded guilty to one felony count of child annoyance with a previous sex conviction. As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, four other felony counts involving four other victims were dismissed.<\/p>\n
Hanggie used social media and attended high school football games to try to solicit underage victims in 2024 and last year, according to court records.<\/p>\n
He was convicted in April 1994 in Los Angeles County of lewd acts on a child, according to court records. He also has a prior strike for kidnapping out of Fresno County in 1989, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Hanggie was declared a sexually violent predator and was sent to a state mental health institution when he was charged in June 2009 with attempted murder for stabbing a fellow patient at Coalinga State Hospital in the back with a handmade knife, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Hanggie was sentenced to 24 years in prison as his two prior strikes were not imposed.<\/p>\n
Orange County Superior Court Judge Larry Yellin was prepared to do the same in a plea deal offer to the defendant until he heard from the victims Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re having a bad afternoon,\u201d Yellin told the defendant as he asked him if he wanted to follow through the plea deal for 25 years to life.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou thought it was going a certain way and now it\u2019s going a different way,\u201d Yellin added.<\/p>\n
But the judge said it was \u201cjustice to have finality\u201d in the case as it was resolved Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old convicted sex offender pleaded guilty Monday to soliciting an underage boy in Newport Beach and was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[134241,16054,6876,119971,134242,48,52,51,1637,47,50,49,63,5860,14631,134243,2901,7214,23735,72,134244],"class_list":["post-322241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-child-annoyance","tag-court-record","tag-felony-count","tag-guilty-monday","tag-hanggie","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-life","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-newport-beach","tag-plea-deal","tag-prior-strike","tag-prison","tag-prosecutor","tag-sex-offender","tag-year","tag-yellin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}