CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who possessed child pornography was sentenced June 4, 2015 to over 11 years in federal prison.
Paul LeClere, age 51, of Hopkinton, Iowa, received the sentence after a February 6, 2015 guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography. At the guilty plea hearing, LeClere admitted that he knowingly possessed child pornography.
LeClere was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade. LeClere was sentenced to 135 months’ imprisonment and fined $10,000. A special assessment of $100 was imposed, LeClere was ordered to make $4,000 in restitution, and he must also serve a ten-year term of supervised release. He must comply with all sex offender registration and public notification requirements.
