Marion Man Pleads Guilty to Receipt of Child Pornography

A man who received child pornography pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Jeffrey Alan Bradley, age 50, from Marion, Iowa, was convicted of one count of receipt of child pornography.

In a plea agreement, Bradley admitted that between May 2020 and February 2022, he received at least 600 visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The depictions included material portraying sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence, as well as the sexual abuse or exploitation of an infant or toddler. Law enforcement searched Bradley's residence in February 2022, and recovered the child pornography.

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 before United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams will be set after a presentence report is prepared. Bradley remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing. Bradley faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years' imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of 20 years' imprisonment, $40,100 in special assessments, a $250,000 fine, and a life of supervised release following any imprisonment.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Devra T. Hake and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 24-CR-40. Follow us on Twitter @USAO_NDIA.