Iowa sex offender who distributed and received child porn sentenced to eighteen years in federal prison

SIOUX CITY – A man who distributed and received child pornography was sentenced June 26, 2013, to eighteen years in federal prison.

Jeffrey Huygens, age 47, of Sioux City, Iowa, received the sentence after a February 25, 2013, guilty plea to one count of distributing child pornography and one count of receiving child pornography. At the guilty plea, Huygens admitted he knowingly used the Internet to distribute and receive child pornography. Huygens also admitted that, in 1990, in Island County, Washington, he was convicted of Child Molestation in the First Degree.

Huygens was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Donald E. O’Brien. Huygens was sentenced to 216 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $200 was imposed, and Huygens must also serve a ten-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 the Iowa Division of Criminal 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.