Muscatine男子Joseph Lee Rhodes Jr.运输儿童色情制品：在爱荷华州联邦法院判刑15年
Davenport——美国爱荷华州 Muscatine 男子 Joseph Lee Rhodes Jr. 因两项运输儿童色情制品罪，于10月27日被判处15年联邦监禁，美国司法部爱荷华南区联邦检察官办公室宣布了这一量刑。Rhodes 现年42岁，刑满后还须接受7年监管释放；联邦系统没有假释。他另被责令支付3,000美元赔偿，并缴纳6,000美元评估费，该款项注入「明确金钱援助受害者储备金」，用于补偿儿童性虐待材料案件的受害者。
据公开法庭文件与量刑时出示的证据，全国失踪与受剥削儿童中心收到多条网络举报线索（CyberTips），指有账户接收、上传并分发含有儿童性虐待材料的文件，这些账户被查明与 Rhodes 有关。执法人员搜查了与他有关的一处位于 Iowa 州 Letts 的住所，缴获电子设备；对设备的法证检查显示，Rhodes 用这些设备接收、观看、持有并分发了相关图片以及逾100段含有儿童性虐待内容的视频。
本案由 Louisa County 警长办公室调查，爱荷华南区联邦检察官 David C. Waterman 宣布量刑。案件属司法部「儿童安全计划」（Project Safe Childhood）的一部分，该全国性行动由联邦检察官办公室与司法部儿童剥削与淫秽物品科牵头，统筹联邦、州与地方资源，定位、抓捕并起诉利用互联网剥削儿童的人，并识别、救助受害者。
Muscatine Man Joseph Lee Rhodes Jr. Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Transportation of Child Pornography
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Joseph Lee Rhodes Jr., 42, of Muscatine, Iowa, was sentenced on October 27, 2026, to 15 years in federal prison for two counts of transportation of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa announced. After completing his prison term, Rhodes will be required to serve a seven-year term of supervised release; there is no parole in the federal system. He was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution and $6,000 in assessments that support the Defined Monetary Assistance Victims Reserve, which provides compensation for victims of child sexual abuse material.
According to public court documents and evidence presented at sentencing, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received multiple CyberTips that accounts received, uploaded, and distributed files containing child sexual abuse material, and those accounts were determined to be associated with Rhodes. Law enforcement seized electronic devices during a search of a residence in Letts, Iowa, associated with Rhodes. A forensic examination of the seized devices showed that Rhodes used them to receive, view, possess, and distribute images and more than 100 videos containing child sexual abuse material.
United States Attorney David C. Waterman of the Southern District of Iowa made the announcement. The Louisa County Sheriff's Office investigated the case. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse, led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, which marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, and to identify and rescue victims.
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图片来源：图：位于 Iowa 州 Davenport 的美国联邦法院大楼全楼实景（爱荷华南区联邦地区法院驻地、本案量刑地）。照片：Carol M. Highsmith 摄，公共领域（国会图书馆），经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The United States Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa, home of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain (Library of Congress), via Wikimedia Commons.
