CEDAR RAPIDS – An Iowa woman who created child pornography videos and distributed them online was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
Abigail Elizabeth Lambert (pictured at top), age 32, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after an October 12, 2023 guilty plea to one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of sexual exploitation of children.
At the guilty plea, Lambert admitted that she used, persuaded, induced, or enticed at least one minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing one or more visual depictions of the conduct. She also admitted that she knowingly distributed visual depictions of child pornography over the internet. Court documents reflect that, in June 2023, Lambert exchanged messages with an undercover officer over a fetish website. Lambert told the officer that she had committed sexual acts with two minors and that she had videos of the sexual acts. On June 29, 2023, Lambert sent the undercover officer some of the videos she had previously described.
Lambert was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams. Lambert was sentenced to 480 months’ imprisonment. She must also serve a five-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Lambert is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until she can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Dan Chatham.
