Hawarden Man Sentenced to Thirteen Years for Distributing Child Pornography

A man who distributed child pornography was sentenced August 19, 2015 to thirteen years in federal prison.

James Ney, age 33, of Hawarden, Iowa, received the sentence after a February 19, 2015 guilty plea to one count of distribution of child pornography.  At the guilty plea hearing, Ney admitted that, in 2013, he distributed child pornography to others.

Ney was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett.  Ney was sentenced to 156 months’ imprisonment.  A special assessment of $100 was imposed, and he must also serve a five-year term of supervised release.  He 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 Homeland Security Investigations.

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 14-4072.

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