A man who possessed child pornography was sentenced April 26, 2010, to five years of probation.

Mark Stimson, age 61, formerly of Wall Lake, Iowa, and now living in Urbandale, Iowa, received the sentence after a January 8, 2010, guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography.

At the guilty plea, Stimson admitted that, in 2005-06, he possessed over 200 images of child pornography at his Wall Lake address.

Stimson was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Stimson was sentenced to five years’ probation. A special assessment of $100 was imposed.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark Tremmel and was investigated by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Lake View Police Department.

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 09-4050.

 

 

 

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