A Lane County man incarcerated on sex abuse charges has died in prison.

The Oregon Department of Corrections reported Steve Lesley Dory, 79, died at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario Sept. 7. The DOC reported Lesley died in the infirmary while on hospice care.

Dory was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison in 2020. He was convicted of using a child in display of sexual conduct and four counts of first-degree sex abuse. Dory's charges were related to the sexual abuse of four children between 2005 and 2012 and taking sexual photographs of the children, according to Register-Guard archives .

He had been in prison since Aug. 11, 2020.

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