SIOUX CITY --- A Muscatine man has been sentenced to prison after sending child pornography to a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl.
The girl was really a Cedar Falls police investigator.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett sentenced Travis John O’Connor, 26, to 10 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release after he pleaded to one count each of transporting child porn and distributing child porn.
The judge also ordered O’Connor to pay a $200 special assessment.
According to court records, O’Connor, a heating and ventilation technician, had conversations with the undercover investigator in an Internet chat room in August 2006. He talked about sex and then turned on a Web camera and began fondling himself, records state.
They chatted again in December, and O’Connor again used the Web camera and then sent 21 images of child porn to the investigator, records state.
When police later searched his computer, they found 150 items of child pornography, records state. Several of the images depicted prepubescent minors engaged in sexually explicit activity.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan.
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