LEWISTON — A federal judge imposed a 10-year sentence on a local man for seeking child pornography on his computer.

Douglas Blodgett, 46, appeared Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland where the judge also sentenced him to a decade of supervised release for accessing with intent to view material containing images of child pornography. He also was ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to the child depicted in several of the child pornography images he accessed by computer.

Blodgett had pleaded guilty to that charge in August.

At his Lewiston home in March, Blodgett had logged on to his home computer and accessed various child pornography sites. He used so-called Internet Relay Chat through his Internet browser to find child pornography, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Chapman.

Among the channels Blodgett accessed were those named “Dollnet” and “Undernet,” Chapman wrote in a memorandum found in court records.

Prosecutors indicated they would have been able to establish at trial that the information about Blodgett’s Internet access was obtained during a forensic search of his computer and through admissions he made to investigators, according to court records.

His computer was seized and searched after agents executed a warrant on his home and computer.

The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security investigations.

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