SIOUX CITY – A Northern man who received child pornography was sentenced August 2, 2022 to 5 years in federal prison.
Dason Ku, age 42, from Whiting, IA, received the prison term after a May 11, 2022, guilty plea to receipt of child pornography. At his plea hearing, Ku admitted that on October 24, 2018, he knowingly received visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Ku was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Ku was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution to victims. He must also serve a 5-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ron Timmons and was investigated by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
