fort dodge man charged with receiving and possessing child pornography
Contact: Peter Deegan
Travis Rudloff, age 23, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, has been charged with one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed February 3, 2011, in United States District Court in Sioux City.
The Indictment alleges that, between August 2009 and March 2010, Rudloff knowingly received and possessed depictions of child pornography.
If convicted on both charges, Rudloff faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years’ imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of 30 years’ imprisonment, $500,000 in fines, $200 in special assessments, and at least 5 years and up to life on supervised release following any imprisonment.
Rudloff appeared on February 3, 2011, in federal court in Sioux City and was held without bond. Rudloff’s next appearance for a detention hearing is set for February 7, 2011.
As with any criminal case, a charge is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark Tremmel and was investigated by the Webster County Sheriff’s Office and the Fort Dodge 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 10-3052.
