SPOKANE – A Rosalia man was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 2, to 10 years in federal prison in a child-pornography case.

Philip Mario Harhill, 74, of Rosalia, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Washington for coercion and enticement of a minior, U.S. Attorney Vanessa R. Waldref said.

U.S. Senior District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson sentenced Harthill to 120 months to be followed by a life term of supervised release, records show.

Peterson emphasized that “the damage to children” caused by Harthill’s crimes is very “real.”

“This is damage they will carr...