Greene man sentenced on federal child porn charges

By Jeff Reinitz, Waterloo Courier

A convicted sex offender been sentenced to prison on child pornography charges.

Prosecutors said David Paul Myers, 54, of rural Greene, had depictions of adults having sexual contact with children, including a child who was tied up.

Myers also has prior convictions in Floyd and Butler counties for sexually abusing three 11-year-old boys in 1996 and 1997 and had been returned to prison for violating his parole in 2006.

Judge Leonard Strand sentenced Myers to the minimum 15 years in prison on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. He will be on supervised release for five years following his prison time and was ordered to pay $1,500 in restitution to each of the two victims that authorities were able to identify.

Myers’ attorney had asked the judge to allow Myer to serve his prison term at home because he is in poor health and uses an electric wheelchair and supplemental oxygen.

Staff at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip from a social networking site that Myers and another person were exchanging child porn images in March 2014

Agents with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation searched Myers’ home in January 2015 and found electronic devices including a laptop computer, a tablet and a CD entitled “Hot Young Lads Vol. 2” that contained at least 15 child porn images and at least 20 videos.

Myers was indicted in October 2017 and pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography in February 2018.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark Tremmel and was investigated by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Iowa Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force, and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.