A central Iowa man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
Court documents show 30-year-old Kyle Taylor Tremblay of Ankeny went online to video chat with children and directed the kids to perform sexual acts and strike “explicit poses” according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Des Moines. Some of the children were 10 and 11 years old.
Investigators say Tremblay’s cell phone showed he used a messenger app to share child porn with others.
A 49-year-old Davenport man who’s been held in police custody since mid-March is being released after pleading guilty to the attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor.
Gerald Brian Hoard was arrested after an online conversation with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old. A federal judge has sentenced Hoard to the time he’s already served, but Hoard much spend one year in a residential re-entry facility and be under supervised release for three years.