Holliston man gets seven years in child porn case

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Holliston man gets seven years in child porn case
By Norman Miller/Daily News staff
Thu Jan 21, 2010


WOBURN - A Holliston man who once told police he treated his son's friend like a son was sentenced Tuesday to at least seven years in prison for raping the boy.
Michael Finos, 46, pleaded guilty to raping the boy, sexually assaulting the boy and several child pornography-related charges in Middlesex Superior Court on Tuesday.
He had originally pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
Finos was arrested on July 19, 2009, at his 256 Fiske St. home.
Finos pleaded guilty to rape of a child by force, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14, two counts of posing a child in a state of nudity, inducing a minor into sexual intercourse, possession of child pornography and dissemination of matter harmful to a minor.
Finos was sentenced to seven to eight years in prison for the rape charge and the two counts of indecent assault and battery, all to run concurrently.
He was also sentenced to 10 years supervised probation once he is released from MCI-Cedar Junction on the rest of the charges.
At Finos' Framingham District Court arraignment on July 21, the victim's mother said she felt betrayed by him. The Daily News is not identifying the mother because it would identify her son.
"He's not sick. Sick people can be cured," the woman said after the arraignment. "Poor little boys are innocent lambs to him. He told the police, 'I treated him like a son.' He told me a year ago, 'He is like a third son."'
(Norman Miller can be reached at 508-626-3823 or nmiller@cnc.com.)
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