Timothy T. Duax U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa
A Dubuque man has pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing child pornography. Jonathan Reed Snow, 25, admitted during a plea hearing in Cedar Rapids that he used the Internet to share visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct between September 2023 and August 2024. Evidence presented at an earlier hearing indicated that Snow also received and possessed child pornography, including images of prepubescent children, from June 2024 to August 2024.
"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 www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab 'resources.'"
Sentencing for Snow will be scheduled after a presentence report is completed. He remains in custody pending sentencing before United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams. Snow faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and up to twenty years without parole. Additional penalties include a fine up to $250,000, special assessments totaling $40,100, and a lifetime term of supervised release following imprisonment.
