Lewiston Man Douglas Blodgett Gets 10 Years for Child Porn Access

Douglas Blodgett, 46, of Lewiston, Maine, is headed to federal prison for a decade after admitting he accessed and sought out child pornography online. The grim sentence, handed down today in U.S. District Court, includes 10 years behind bars followed by an additional 10 years of supervised release — a lifetime shadow for a man who chose to dive into the darkest corners of the web.

Blodgett pleaded guilty on August 22, 2016, to one count of accessing child pornography with intent to view. The charge, prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine, carries a mandatory minimum sentence, but the severity of Blodgett’s actions — deliberately seeking out criminal content — sealed his fate under federal sentencing guidelines.

Court records reveal that in March of this year, Blodgett used Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels and chatrooms known to trade in child sexual abuse material. These digital back-alley networks are a favored haunt for predators, and Blodgett didn’t just stumble in — he accessed specific web addresses containing illegal images, investigators confirmed.

A search warrant executed at his Lewiston residence led agents to digital evidence of his activity. His own computer became the prosecution’s silent witness. When confronted by Homeland Security Investigators, Blodgett admitted he had knowingly entered chatrooms where child pornography was shared — a confession that stripped him of any plausible defense.

The investigation was led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a federal unit that tracks online predators across state and international lines. Their work dismantled Blodgett’s private world of exploitation, proving once again that digital footprints don’t disappear — they convict.

On top of his prison term, Blodgett has been ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to a child victim depicted in multiple images he accessed. The amount, while symbolic, underscores a brutal truth: every view re-victimizes the child. As he begins his sentence, Blodgett joins the ranks of predators caught in the federal net — exposed, prosecuted, and locked away.