Floodlit.org has learned that Candon Dahle is about to be released from jail. Details: https://floodlit.org/a/b168/
Dahle, 22, was a starting pitcher for the Brigham Young University (BYU) baseball team at the time of his arrest in February 2025 for alleged sexual abuse of a girl spanning five years, beginning when she was seven years old.
At Dahle’s sentencing, the abuse survivor said, “Candon acts powerful and entitled, but all it took was a 14-year-old girl to show the truth. I want him to know you lost to me. I’m the one who ripped off the mask.”
Full video of the sentencing (victim/survivor begins speaking at approximately 37:50):
Candon Dahle Early Release from Jail
According to online records, Dahle is set to be released from the Fremont County Jail in St. Anthony, Idaho on Feb.14. However, a source familiar with the case told Floodlit that Dahle is scheduled for release on Jan. 21.
Thanks to a plea agreement, Dahle will NOT have to register as a sex offender in Idaho, and he avoided prison time. Judge Steven Boyce sentenced Dahle in August to 180 days in jail, followed by 200 hours of community service and eight years of probation. A violation of that probation could send Dahle to prison for five to 10 years.
In all, there are at least four alleged victims of child sexual abuse by Dahle. Similar charges against Dahle in Bingham County were dropped as a result of the plea agreement.
Candon Dahle’s Latter-day Saint connections
Dahle is from Blackfoot, Idaho, in Bingham County, and was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the time of his crimes. As of 2024, approximately 50 percent of the county’s population identified as Latter-day Saints: https://prri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PRRI_Dec_2024_Religion_final-1.pdf
According to multiple sources familiar with Dahle’s family, one alleged victim’s father was an LDS stake high council member. Candon Dahle’s father is a former LDS bishopric counselor, and his mother was a ward Relief Society president at the time of Dahle’s arrest. Dahle’s parents knew about the allegations against Dahle but sent him back to BYU weeks later, allowing him to be around minor children, the sources said.
Candon Dahle Letters of Support
Floodlit requested copies of the dozens of letters of support sent to the court on Dahle’s behalf, but a Fremont County clerk told us the letters are sealed. Such letters are typically available to the public.
At sentencing, the abuse survivor and her mother spoke about the letters: https://floodlit.org/dahle-defense/
The 15-year-old survivor said, “Your honor, I have worked so hard the last five months to find things I love […] I finally found three […] Dance, starting high school and counseling. Candon had someone from all of those parts of my life write letters of support for him, even my own dance coach. That broke me.”
Her mother said, “I am left speechless at the audacity of the other party asking those who are trusted adults in [Survivor’s] life – her own dance coach, a counselor from the child advocacy center she attends, a teacher at her school, friends of ours with children her age – to support her abuser.”
BYU baseball coach Trent Pratt also wrote a letter of support for the convicted child abuser.
Candon Dahle Plea Agreement
At sentencing, the abuse survivor spoke about Dahle’s abuse: “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. 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.”
Addressing the judge, the survivor said, “I need you to know that if he gets off today, I will wonder for the rest of my life why I ever put myself and my family through this. Please don’t take away the only part of this that gives me some sense of peace.”
But Judge Boyce accepted the plea agreement, noting that Dahle had no previous criminal history and was still young.
Public response to Candon Dahle sentencing
12 days after Dahle’s sentencing, the Idaho Judicial Branch issued a press release and a case timeline.
The press release stated, “After news reports on the sentencing, social media posts distorted the facts, spreading the claim that a judge had chosen not to sentence a rapist to prison.
That misinformation has fueled nationwide threats against the local court. […] The volume and detail of the threats has required additional security precautions at public expense.”
A Floodlit supporter asked us to share the following information for those wishing to make their voices heard:
Complaints against Judge Boyce, Judge Dane Watkins – the judge who oversaw the mediation/plea deal, and Fremont County Prosecutor Leslie Blake can be left with Trial Court Administrator Tammie Whyte at (208) 529 -1350 Ext. 1341 or twhyte@co.bonneville.id.us.
Those wishing to file a complaint by mail can use this form: https://judicialcouncil.idaho.gov/pdf/Complaint-Form-2022-02-17.pdf and mail it to the address at the bottom of the form.
https://www.change.org/p/close-the-loophole-require-sex-offender-registration-for-adults-convicted-of-sexual-abuse – Close the Loophole: Require Sex Offender Registration for Adults Convicted of sexual abuse – Over 1,550 signatures
https://www.change.org/p/stop-plea-deals-for-child-predators – Stop Plea Deals for Child Predators – Over 192,000 signatures
If you have any information about Candon Dahle’s criminal case or his history of membership in the Mormon church, please contact us: https://floodlit.org/contact/
