BUFFALO, IOWA MAN SENTENCED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES
DAVENPORT, IA - On October 20, 2009, Christopher Robin Conger, age 50, of Buffalo, Iowa, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 120 months imprisonment for receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker. United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey also ordered Conger to serve two concurrent ten year terms of supervised release upon his release from prison, pay an assessment of $200 to the Crime Victim Fund, and forfeit the computer equipment that was used and intended to be used to commit the offenses.
On February 24, 2009, a two-count indictment was returned by the federal grand jury sitting in Davenport, Iowa charging Conger with receiving child pornography between October 7, 2008, and on or about November 14, 2008 (Count 1) and possessing child pornography on November 14, 2008. On June 17, 2009, Conger pled guilty to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography and agreed to the forfeiture of his computer.
This case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa. The prosecution resulted from Operation Wirebreaker, a joint criminal investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Iowa Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force including the Davenport Police Department.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. 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.