Daytona Beach, FL – The president of Keiser University’s Daytona Beach campus won’t be prosecuted for trying to have sex with 2 underage girls earlier this year.
State Attorney RJ Larizza’s office made that announcement on Tuesday afternoon, releasing a memo written by Assistant State Attorney Mike Willard detailing the reasons why Larizza’s office won’t go after Matthew McEnany.
The 60-year-old McEnany was suspended from his job soon after the story broke last August. Since then, Daytona Beach Police Department Chief Mike Chitwood had been pushing Larizza’s office to have McEnany formally arrested and charged.
In the memo – which you can read in full by clicking here – Willard wrote that there wasn’t enough evidence to charge McEnany with trying to solicit a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl after he was carjacked by a 21-year-old man who was upset about sexually explicit texts that McEnany sent to the girls.
“Substantial and material conflicts exist in the stories provided by the 3 minor females regarding the nature of the contact they had with Mr. McEnany over a 2 month period,” Willard noted. “While some of the texts forensically recovered by DBPD investigators from one of the minor’s phones are inappropriate, there are no discussions of sex or trading sexual favors for money or goods.”
In an interview with WNDB’s Marc Bernier soon after DBPD arrested William Dune Smith for carjacking McEnany at Lenox Park, Chitwood stated that there was also a 14-year-old girl involved and that the eldest of the girls was 9 months pregnant at the time.
Chitwood also told Bernier during that interview that McEnany admitted to being at the park on the night of August 9th for a sexual encounter with the girls and that he was acting as a “sugar daddy” to the girls.
Investigators think Smith decided to use 2 of the girls to lure McEnany to Lenox Park and get him out of his 2011 Toyota Venza, at which point Smith emerged from some nearby bushes and attacked him.
DBPD believes Smith and the 2 girls left the scene in McEnany’s vehicle after the attack, leaving him stranded. The vehicle was recovered hours later in the parking lot of Halifax Health Medical Center.
The arrest report shows Smith admitting to being at the scene the night of the attack but denying that he was the man who attacked McEnany.
Chitwood said that the school didn’t appear to be aware or directly involved with what McEnany was apparently doing in his free time.
Volusia County Jail records show Smith’s been booked there 6 other times since May 2013 on a host of charges, including marijuana possession, retail theft, armed robbery, trespassing, grand theft auto, driving with a suspended license and loitering.
Smith has remained at VCJ since his arrest on August 20th.
William Dune Smith (mugshot courtesy VCJ)
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