NEW: Former Chariho HS Coach Gets Five Years for Child Porn
Friday, February 15, 2013
A former Chariho High School assistant soccer coach has just been sentenced to federal prison on child pornography charges.
Glen Matteson, 52, will serve 60 months behind bars , will be under supervised release for 10 years after his release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
Matteson had pled guilty in November to one count each of receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography following a complain in February of last year that a Richmond resident had found sexually graphic text messages from Matteson on the cell phone of his 15-year-old son.
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After Matteson reportedly admitted viewing, storing and distributing child pornography images and videos, Richard Police and law enforcement officers and agents from the Rhode Island Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force executed a court authorized search of Matteson’s cell phone, two home computers, a digital storage device, and his work computer at the ACI.
According to Neronha, they reportedly found “numerous text messages and emails containing sexually explicit messages,” and a forensic examination of the equipment by the ICAC Task Force “resulted in the discovery of 898 images and 73 videos depicting child pornography.”
Matteson was ordered by the court to self-surrender to begin serving his prison sentence on March 12 and is still awaiting trial in state court on a charge of indecent solicitation of a child.
