Crime & Safety

Dedham Man Sentenced on Child Porn Conviction

Donald F. Slason was sentenced to 21 months in prison.

A Dedham man was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison and five years of supervised release for possession of child pornography, according to a statement put out by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

At an earlier plea hearing, Donald F. Slason, 58, admitted to downloading and uploading images of child pornography from the Internet, and to possessing and viewing additional images of child pornography on computer media recovered from his home.

According to a 2011 statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Slason could have faced 10 years in prison.

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Slaslon was indicted for possession in 2008, and was indicted last March.

The investigation that nabbed Slason was part of Operation Predator, a nationwide initiative to arrest people who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders and child sex traffickers.

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