Jeffrey Huygens, age 47, of Sioux City, Iowa, has been indicted on federal child pornography charges. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed November 6, 2012, in United States District Court in Sioux City.

The Indictment alleges that, between 2002 and 2012, Huygens distributed, received, and possessed child pornography after having been convicted of two counts of child molestation in Washington State in 1990.

If convicted on all charges, Huygens faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of 120 years’ imprisonment, $1,000,000 in fines, $400 in special assessments, and at least 5 years and up to life on supervised release following any imprisonment.

Huygens appeared on November 8, 2012, in federal court in Sioux City and was held without bond. Huygens’ next appearance for trial is set for January 7, 2013.

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 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 the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources.”

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR 12-4094.

 

 

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