Cedar Falls Men Sentenced to Federal Prison On Child Pornography Charges

Two men who downloaded and possessed child pornography were sentenced to federal prison on December 31, 2015.

Frank Martinez, age 50, from Cedar Falls, Iowa, received a sentence of over 10 years’ imprisonment after an August 10, 2015 guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography.  His husband Donald Wall, age 51, from Cedar Falls, received a sentence of over 6 years’ imprisonment after an August 21, 2015 guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography.  Information presented at the sentencing hearings showed that both defendants used the Internet to download child pornography.

Both defendants were sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade.  Martinez was sentenced to 121 months’ imprisonment, he was fined $10,000, a special assessment of $100 was imposed, and he was ordered to make $2,500 in restitution.  Wall was sentenced to 78 months’ imprisonment, he was fined $10,000, and a special assessment of $100 was imposed.  Each defendant must serve a 10-year term of supervised release and must comply with all sex offender registration and public notification requirements. 

This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark Tremmel and was investigated by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of 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 15-2022.

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