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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release in Pittsburgh on Friday from United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced that day that a resident of Grove City, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months of imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal law regarding the sexual exploitation of a minor. The sentence was imposed on forty-one-year-old Michael William Boston on Thursday. According to information presented to the Court, on October 25th, 2022, Boston transported material depicting the sexual exploitation of minors in interstate commerce by uploading the material to a cloud-based server. Boston was previously employed by an intermediate unit as a resource instructor for students that are hearing impaired and he traveled to various schools across nine Pennsylvania counties to work with children from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade who suffered from hearing impairments in that role. Boston was fired from his teaching position and forced to surrender his teaching license as a result of this prosecution. Boston also took responsibility for transporting
child sexual abuse material on two other dates in 2023 and for the possession of more than 1,500 images and videos containing child sexual abuse material across seven different electronic devices as part of his plea agreement and many of the images depicted the sexual exploitation of toddler-aged and infant males that were as young as several months old. The collection of images and videos by Boston additionally depicted acts of bestiality and blindfolded children tied to stationary objects.