CEDAR RAPIDS – This Rockwell man recorded a child engaged in unthinkable acts, then shared it to his pals, and now for 21 years, he will be looking over his shoulder in a federal prison wondering who might share him.
David Bradley Garrison, age 44, from Rockwell, Iowa, received a 21-year prison term on August 4 after a March 6, 2025 guilty plea to sexual exploitation of a child and distribution of child pornography.
Evidence at sentencing showed that in July 2021, Garrison recorded a video of a child engaging in sexually explicit conduct. He distributed child pornography to multiple people in May and August 2021. He possessed thousands of photographs and videos of child pornography, which contained depictions of infants and depictions of child sexual torture or bondage. After law enforcement searched Garrison’s residence in January 2022, Garrison continued to possess child pornography.
Garrison was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand. Garrison was sentenced to 252 months’ imprisonment and was ordered to make $16,000 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.
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. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit http://www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources.”
Garrison is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Devra T. Hake and Dillan Edwards and investigated by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation, and Rockwell Police Department.