Ed. Note: At a later date, a San Diego judge dismissed two charges connected to the September 2010 incident.
Grand jury transcripts obtained by NBC 7 Friday reveal new, chilling details of a man accused of attempting to lure and kidnap young girls at Solana Beach-area schools.
Jack Doshay, 23, a member of an affluent San Diego family, was arrested last spring after he allegedly tried to kidnap a 7-year-old girl from Skyline Elementary School.
According to prosecutors, Doshay allegedly wrapped packing tape around the little girl’s head before he tried to carry her off. His DNA was found on that packing tape, prosecutors said.
The girl’s screams and kicks caught the attention of staffers at the school and the girl managed to escape unharmed.
NBC 7 obtained 418 pages of grand jury transcripts detailing the alleged kidnapping, including how the little girl in the March 2015 case said Doshay – whom she referred to as the “bad man” – approached her carrying a sports bag and roll of clear tape used to wrap boxes as she walked to chess club after school.
In the documents, the girl said she saw Doshay on campus and that he talked to her. The girl said she didn’t want to tell anyone what Doshay said to her because it’s scary for her to talk about it. The little girl was very upset when discussing the incident.
The transcripts include details from a Skyline Elementary School teacher who heard the girl’s screams that day at around 3:15 p.m. as she conducted parent-teacher conferences at the school.
The teacher said she heard someone screaming “Tape! Tape!” The teacher went outside and saw a custodian running in the direction of the girl.
The teacher said she ran to the little girl and discovered tape all over her – in her hair, the left side of her cheek and stuck to a pink beanie cap the girl was wearing.
The teacher said she felt frantic – especially after she looked into the child’s eyes.
“I came down to her level and her eyes were – you could see she was terrified,” the teacher said in the transcripts. “I was terrified.”
She said the girl kept repeating, “he tried to take me” and “he tried to tape me.”
The teacher screamed to other faculty and parents at the campus to call 911. Another teacher said she saw the kidnapping suspect still on campus, heading toward the parking lot.
The teacher said she then ran to the parking lot, where she saw the suspect in a car with tinted windows. She looked at that driver, eye-to-eye, and he sped off, almost crashing into another car in the parking lot, the documents said.
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The teacher told the grand jury that the whole situation happened so quickly, she wasn't able to clearly identify the driver or take down a license plate number.
The transcripts also include statements from Doshay’s parents – Glenn and Karen Doshay. Glenn is a minority stakeholder of the San Diego Padres.
Glenn told an attorney that Jack Doshay had been accepted into a university 10 days prior to the alleged attempted kidnapping.
After reading a news article about the alleged kidnapping, Glenn suspected his son may have been involved based on the vehicle description, the transcripts said.
According to the documents, Glenn told investigators he had also looked at his son’s computer and found online search history on how to “tape” someone up using duct tape.
There were also searches on the laptop for the terms “child erotica,” “little girls modeling” and “Japanese schoolgirl teens” under Jack Doshay’s log-in.
As Glenn pieced things together, he hired prominent San Diego defense attorney Paul Pfingst to represent his son, the documents stated.
Karen’s statement in the transcripts echoed Glenn’s story about how they believed their son was a suspect in the March 2015 alleged kidnapping.
Doshay is also accused of another similar incident involving an even younger victim: a 5-year-old girl he allegedly tried to kidnap in September 2010 near baseball fields at Solana Santa Fe Elementary School.
In that incident, the girl was allegedly lured behind a shed after school and told she was going to see a bunny. The child was told to get on her hands and knees and, as she searched for the rabbit, the suspect grabbed the girl by her hips. Prosecutors allege Doshay then unzipped the girl’s pants and tried to remove them. The girl screamed and kicked the suspect and escaped.
Doshay faces many charges stemming from these allegations, including lewd acts on a child with and without force, kidnapping, false imprisonment with violence and child abuse. He is being represented by prominent San Diego defense attorney Paul Pfingst.
At legal proceedings last year, Pfingst argued the girl at Skyline Elementary School was not removed from school grounds and was not touched sexually. He also said the victim in the alleged 2010 incident has identified another person as the perpetrator, and that person is not Doshay.
On Friday, Pfingst told NBC 7 he filed a motion to dismiss the 2010 case against Doshay, saying evidence proves his client is innocent in that case.
Pfingst said the motion includes a declaration from the investigating deputy sheriff in the 2010 case saying she found that child’s story to be “unfounded.”
In regards to the laptop search history cited in the transcripts, Pfingst told NBC 7 no child pornography was found on his client’s computer.
Doshay bailed out of jail last year and is currently seeking treatment at a mental health facility. He wears a monitoring ankle bracelet.
In the transcripts, one of Doshay’s roommates at the group therapy facility testified that Doshay had anxiety, paranoia and an addiction to online pornography.
Pfingst told NBC 7 that just because Doshay looked at online pornography, doesn't mean his client is guilty of all the charges he faces.
Doshay is due in court in May, with his felony jury trial slated to begin in July. If convicted in both cases, he faces a maximum of 50 years to life in prison. If convicted in both cases, he faces a maximum of 50 years to life in prison.
