A man from Waterloo, Iowa, Jeremy Moore, aged 39, has been sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison for receiving child sexual abuse material in 2023 and 2024. He also received an additional eighteen months for violating his supervised release.
Moore pleaded guilty on January 31, 2025, to one count of receipt of child pornography. During the plea, he admitted to receiving the material between January 2023 and April 2024. It was revealed that while residing at a halfway house in Waterloo after his previous incarceration for interstate transportation of child pornography in 2008, Moore possessed an unauthorized phone containing such material.
In late 2024, while on supervised release for his prior conviction, a search by officers from the United States Probation Office uncovered another phone with over 600 images of child sexual abuse material. These included images of victims under the age of twelve and those depicting sadistic or masochistic conduct.
United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams sentenced Moore in Cedar Rapids to a total of 210 months’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay $27,000 in restitution. Following his prison term, Moore must serve a ten-year term of supervised release. There is no parole available in the federal system.
Chief Judge Williams also imposed an additional eighteen-month sentence for violations related to possessing child sexual abuse material and failing to comply with various terms of his supervised release.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, an initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 aimed at combating child sexual exploitation and abuse. The initiative coordinates resources from federal, state, and local levels to prosecute offenders and rescue victims.
Assistant United States Attorney Anthony Morfitt prosecuted the case with investigations conducted by multiple agencies including the United States Probation Offices for Northern District of Iowa and Eastern District of Missouri, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Moore remains in custody awaiting transport to a federal prison.
