Spokane barista gets local jail time for enticing a child for sex

A Spokane barista who was busted in a police sting after soliciting a 14-year-old for sex will spend three months in jail as part of a lengthier sentence.

First District Judge Lansing Haynes sentenced 20-year-old Kilian Hoyne to a unified six-year sentence that includes a two-year fixed prison term followed by four years to be used at the discretion of the Department of Corrections if the Spokane man violates the terms of his probation.

Haynes suspended the sentence, and ordered three years probation for Hoyne, who has no prior convictions aside from a paraphernalia charge.

The 20-year-old, who was working as a barista before his arrest, was busted earlier this year after traveling to Post Falls from Spokane to have sex with a person he thought was a girl. She wasn’t. It turned out to be police conducting a sting operation.

Officers posed as a teenager when Hoyne contacted them via social media thinking he was soliciting a 14-year-old. The case went to trial; Hoyne’s attorney accused police of entrapping Hoyne. The Coeur d’Alene jury found Hoyne guilty of enticing a child through the Internet, which carries up to 15 years behind bars.

Deputy prosecutor Rebecca Perez said Hoyne’s behavior was reprehensible and that he had also contacted a 16-year-old girl, alluding to a deviant pattern in Hoyne’s behavior.

“Society has a problem when a 20-year-old entices a 14-year-old,” Perez said.

Defense attorneys said the jury may not have understood the entrapment defense laid out by attorneys, and asked Haynes for a withheld judgment for Hoyne because of his age, his lack of a criminal record and because he had taken responsibility by seeking counseling after his arrest.

Haynes agreed that the police officer posing as the child was a “particularly skilled communicator,” but in the end, Haynes said that police, “did not coerce you to do something you weren’t otherwise planning to do.”