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Judge Denies Request for Early Release
By vnews.com- Jordan Cuddemi
Published: 06/29/2018

North Haverhill — A Grafton County judge on Thursday denied a request for early release from prison from the former director of a Lebanon child care center, who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his work computer and was sentenced to five years in prison in 2015.

Michael Whelton, 56, of Enfield, went before Judge Peter Bornstein last week in Grafton Superior Court and argued for the court to suspend the remainder of his minimum prison term.

Whelton, who was the director of the Children’s Center of the Upper Valley, has served about 3½ years of his five-year sentence.

Bornstein sided with prosecutor John Bell, who, in a March court objection, said releasing Whelton early would be “inappropriate” and contrary to public policy under the statute that governs child pornography possession.

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