Former Olmsted County Deputy Sentenced For Child Porn Conviction
Minneapolis, MN (KROC-AM News) - A former Olmsted County Detention Deputy is headed to federal prison.
47-year-old Matthew Adamson today was given a nearly 20 year prison sentence for his conviction on a federal charge of producing or attempting to produce child pornography. According to federal court documents, Adamson was accused of producing child pornography, and in some cases, secretly recording 12 and 13-year-old girls multiple times from 2015 through 2023. He was also accused of coercing a minor girl into having sexual contact with him and possessing sexually explicit images and videos of children.
Adamson entered into a plea agreement last August and admitted to the federal child pornography charge. A spokesperson for the US Attorney for Minnesota says Adamson's 235 month federal prison sentence will be followed by 20 years on supervised release.
Adamson is currently scheduled to stand trial in Olmsted County Court in March on charges stemming from an undercover sting operation conducted by the Rochester Police Department in 2023. The charges allege that he attempted to solicit sexual acts from a girl he believed was 13 years old, but was actually an undercover officer.
The criminal complaint says Adamson is also accused of recording and saving videos of several female detainees that were recorded while they were changing their clothing in a changing room at the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center. The court document says the videos were discovered stored on two external hard drives during the search of his home that was conducted several days after he was formally charged in the solicitation case.
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