Sex Offender Sentenced for Failure to Register
Des Moines, Iowa - On March 20, 2009, Keith Allen Scott, 33, of Des Moines, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, plus five years of supervised release, for failure to register as a sex offender under the failure to register provisions of the federal Adam Walsh Act, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker. Sentence was imposed by Chief U.S. District Judge Robert W. Pratt.
According to court documents, Scott was required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction for sexual abuse in the third degree, entered in Polk County in 1999. Scott eventually moved to the state of Missouri, and then returned to the Des Moines area in June 2007, but failure to register as a sex offender in five days, as required under Iowa law.
The failure to register provisions of the Adam Walsh Act are intended to allow federal law enforcement authorities to assist in the detection and prosecution of unregistered sex offenders who cross state lines and fail to comply with the applicable sex offender registration requirements.
This case was investigated by the Des Moines Police Department and the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force.