dubuque man gets eight years for child pornography
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who downloaded videos and images of child pornography from the Internet was sentenced March 23, 2010, to 97 months in federal prison.
Thomas Woods, age 56, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after an August 10, 2009, guilty plea to receiving child pornography.
At the guilty plea, Woods admitted he downloaded child pornography from the Internet.
Woods was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade. Woods was sentenced to 97 months’ imprisonment and fined $10,000. 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.
Woods was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark Tremmel and was investigated by the Iowa 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 09-1012.
