Take a look at this pic. Would you fuck this doofus? Even if you were Debra LaFave, the answer’s obvious. Of course not. But the fact that Greg Haidl’s multi-millionaire sheriff father has $100 million bucks in the bank might help.

Santa Ana – The night his rape trial ended in a hung jury, Gregory Haidl threw a party at his father’s house – the same house where two years earlier he recorded the videotape that first landed him in legal trouble.

At the mistrial party, he met another 16-year-old girl, and now he faces a second round of sex charges.

This time, the girl says the sex was consensual; she just happened to be too young to give consent under the law.

The latest arrest has thrust Haidl back into the unwelcome glare of media attention – baffling some, but coming as little surprise to others who know him.

“It is astonishing that he is not acting on his best behavior, to be honest with you,” said Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas at a Friday press conference.

But Marcus Solomon, who has known Haidl since he was six, said he believes that Haidl’s continued brushes with the law are a predictable result of years of being bailed out by his influential – and wealthy – parents.

“He doesn’t understand, because every time something goes wrong, he’s rescued from the consequences,” Solomon said. “He’s going to find out the hard way that his parents can’t always save him.”

Haidl’s father, Don Haidl, is an Orange County assistant sheriff whose wealth is estimated at $100 million.

Orange County sheriff’s deputies arrested Haidl earlier this week after deputies answered a noise complaint at a house and discovered Haidl had sex with the minor. The District Attorney’s Office consequently set his bail for a second time at $100,000, and he was bailed out hours after his arrest.

Two months saves him from a second round of felony charges because the girl is two years and 10 months younger than Haidl, 19. The law sets a threshold of three years’ difference in age for felony or misdemeanor statutory rape.

Haidl has been advised by his lawyers not to speak to the media, and his spokeswoman Tori Richards said his parents were unavailable for comment.

Rackauckas announced on Friday that his office is asking Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno to revoke Haidl’s initial $100,000 bail so Haidl can await his rape retrial in jail.

So far, Haidl has appeared untouchable to the District Attorney’s Office.

An expensive and smart defense, provided at the expense of Haidl’s multimillionaire father, worked in Haidl’s favor.

Despite a 20-minute video showing Haidl and his codefendants – Rancho Cucamonga men Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann – allegedly committing a variety of sex acts on a 16-year-old girl who appeared unconscious, the jury couldn’t have been more evenly deadlocked.

Jeff, a juror who went by his first name on the John and Ken radio show on KFI-FM on June 30, said he was convinced by the defense’s positions that the videotape had been edited and the alleged victim wasn’t credible.

“To a lot of jurors and including myself, she damaged herself in her own testimonies,” Jeff said on the radio show.

Caroline, who also went by her first name on the John and Ken show, was the only juror who voted guilty on 23 of the 24 felony counts. If not for her, the boys would have been acquitted of the first four counts, which were rape by intoxication.

“I was so amazed that I was watching the same tape as the other 11 jurors,” said Caroline on the radio show. “There was no point in arguing with them because you know it was the way they thought and no one was there to sway anyone.”

Civil attorney Sheldon Lodmer, who represents the girl in the videotape, has said that Orange County prosecutors must select better jurors for the next trial.

“Next time around I think it will be much different,” Lodmer said.

The District Attorney’s Office has already been rebuffed once, when it requested an increase in Haidl’s bail.

During the trial, Haidl had a run-in with police when he was skateboarding on private property. No charges were filed, but as it was the third such encounter since his first alleged rape, prosecutors wanted to raise his bail.

Before the trial began, but after the first alleged rape, Haidl had two other brushes with the law for illegal skateboarding. He was not charged in either case, but an Orange County grand jury investigation was launched and determined that on one of the occasions, Haidl received favorable treatment from Orange County sheriff’s deputies because his father is a top volunteer official with the department.

Solomon, a Rancho Cucamonga man who was close to Haidl years ago, said all of the recent events in Haidl’s life are a result of his upbringing.

“No matter what he does, somebody is going to buy his way out of it,” said Solomon, 40.

Solomon’s opinion is that Haidl’s legal troubles stem from an overwhelming sense of apathy and an inability to understand there are consequences to his actions.

Haidl used to frequent Solomon’s skateboard shop in Rancho Cucamonga from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Solomon said he watched Haidl grow from a polite 6 year old into an undisciplined and uncaring adolescent. They were close enough to take a 1994 trip to Russia with other skaters for the Goodwill Games.

“To see it on the surface, you just think monster,” Solomon said. “But, that monster was created by a process and that process was inadvertent.”

Haidl was a skillful, smooth skater, and like many other boys, would get dropped off at the shop by a parent and skate, Solomon said. But unlike the other boys, Haidl had endless supplies of cash and little discipline from his parents, he said.

Haidl’s parents have been divorced most of his life, Solomon said. Growing up, Haidl lived with his mother Gail and brother Don Jr. in Rancho Cucamonga, and his father was basically absent from his daily life, Solomon said.

The Haidl family was and still is a rich family, earning its initial wealth from buying and reselling cars impounded by police departments.

Other kids flocked to Haidl like vultures, Solomon said, because he often shared his money freely.

Gail Haidl hired nice young men to be nannies for her sons, but fired them as soon as they tried to discipline Greg for bad behavior, Solomon said. The former skate shop owner, who now owns a tutoring business, saw the Haidls go through at least four nannies.

“I could see that started the dynamic of replaceable people,” he said. “There were plenty of good examples there but nothing consistent, and (there was) a complete lack of discipline.”

The Haidl family did not comment on Solomon’s statements.

However, not all those who knew or know Haidl share Solomon’s opinions.

“Greg is a very calm person who always wants others to be happy and he cares if their feelings are hurt, and he comforts them,” wrote Alta Loma High School teacher Candy Curley, on behalf of Haidl to Judge Briseno.

Another woman, a friend of Gail Haidl’s, wrote to the judge that she has known Greg Haidl for 15 years, and that he was always considerate.

“He has always been so bright, interesting and interested,” Donna Thompson wrote. “Watching him grow through the years has been my pleasure.”

When Solomon read in the newspaper about the young man’s latest arrest, he wanted to cry.

“It just makes me so sad,” Solomon said. “If I could talk to him for 30 seconds I’d say “Greg, stop it! This is something other people can’t save you from, so you have to stop yourself.’ “