Kalona Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison for Sexual Exploitation and Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Child

DAVENPORT, Iowa – A Kalona man was sentenced on April 7, 2026, to 25 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of a child.

According to public court documents and evidence presented at sentencing, in May 2025, the Washington County Sheriff's Office received information that Alexander Warren Dehogues, 35, had secretly recorded two minor children in stages of undress and saved those recordings to his electronic devices. A forensic examination of electronic devices seized from Dehogues’s Kalona residence showed that Dehogues used the devices to record, receive, and possess images and videos containing child sexual abuse material.

After completing his term of imprisonment, Dehogues will be required to serve an eight-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

United States Attorney David C. Waterman of the Southern District of Iowa made the announcement. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, 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 https://www.justice.gov/psc.