BY ROD HANSEN

A local man who pleaded guilty to trafficking pornographic photos of his 2-year-old granddaughter has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime.

Richard Hawes, 65, who lives part of the year at the Friendly Beaver Campground, was arrested in June 2005 after an employee of CVS Pharmacy on S. Willow Street in Manchester reported a customer developing pornographic images of a child at a film kiosk in the store.

A CVS employee in Nashua made a similar report around the same time.

An investigation by both departments showed the photographs were of the same child. Local attempts to identify the person who developed the photos were unsuccessful, but a segment on the national “Good Morning America” program  on June 8, 2005, helped identify the child.

A relative saw non-explicit pictures of the child on the program and notified her parents, who were in Florida.

Following the parents’ call to police, Hawes was arrested by Manchester police officers at the Friendly Beaver Campground.

He took the photos while visiting relatives in Winterpark, Fla., in March 2005, and told police he had given his granddaughter a bath and became “fascinated” with her.

Hawes received his sentence in United States District Court in Concord on March 21.

Following his release from prison, he will be placed on federal probation for the remainder of his life, and will also be required to register as a sex offender anywhere he lives.