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A one-time star of the Canadian track and field world was led away to begin a prison sentence Monday nearly 50 years after he sexually abused three young athletes under his care.

Thomas Kenneth Porter, 77, was sentenced to six years in prison months after Court of King’s Bench Justice Nicholas Devlin found him guilty of two counts of indecent assault and three counts of gross indecency.

Porter was found to have abused three boys aged 14 to 16 who he trained in sprints at the Edmonton Olympic track and field club in the late 1970s. The abuse included sexual touching during ostensible sports massages, as well as plying victims with pornography and alcohol. In one case, Porter ejaculated on one of the victims after a

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