cedar falls man gets more than 24 years for producing child pornography
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who used two underage females to make a sexually explicit video was sentenced yesterday to more than 24 years in federal prison.
Ryan Dean Heath, age 29, from Cedar Falls, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 30, 2009, guilty plea to one count of production of child pornography.
In a plea agreement, Heath admitted that, on April 21, 2007, he had a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old girl engage in sexually explicit conduct so he could make a video of the conduct.
Heath was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade. Heath was sentenced to 293 months’ imprisonment and fined $20,000. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a 10-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Heath is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Peter Deegan and Sean Berry and was investigated by the Cedar Falls Police Department, Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, and Black Hawk County Attorney’s Office.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 09-2003.
