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Eagle Grove Man Sentenced for Downloading Child Pornography

U.S. Attorney’s Office May 25, 2010
  • Northern District of Iowa (319) 363-6333

A man who downloaded child pornography from the Internet was sentenced May 21, 2010, to five years in federal prison.

David Stephens, age 23, of Eagle Grove, Iowa, received the sentence after a February 18, 2010, guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography.

At the guilty plea, Stephens admitted that, in April 2006, he downloaded child pornography from the Internet onto his computer.

Stephens was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Stephens was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed, and Stephens must also serve a 5-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark Tremmel and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006, by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 09-3037.

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