cherokee man sentenced for uploading child pornography to internet
Contact: Peter Deegan
A western Iowa man who distributed child pornography on the Internet was sentenced June 22, 2010, to five years in federal prison.
Lucian Siepka, age 57, from Cherokee, Iowa, received the sentence after a March 24, 2010, guilty plea to one count of transportation of child pornography.
At the guilty plea, Siepka admitted that, in June 2009, he posted images of child pornography on an Internet website. In a plea agreement, Siepka admitted he also downloaded and saved images of child pornography on his computer
Siepka was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Siepka was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed, and Siepka 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 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the South Dakota Division of Criminal 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 09-4066.
