DES MOINES, IA – The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports the sentencing on Aug. 22nd of 46-year old Robert Milton Kimber II, for Possession of Child Pornography. Kimber was sentenced to 189 months (Nearly 16-years) in prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release of seven years. Kimber was also ordered to pay $2,000 to each victim seeking restitution.

46-year old Robert Milton Kimber II

An investigation began in 2018 when multiple online service providers sent the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children multiple Cyber Tip Line reports indicating Kimber was sending child pornography to other persons using the internet. A subsequent law enforcement investigation showed in early 2018 Kimber sent and received child pornography on multiple internet platforms and engaged in a sexually explicit chat online with a person who indicated she was only 13 years old.

Kimber solicited and received a sexually explicit picture from that person. Later in 2018, police seized a cellular phone that stored videos and images of child pornography from the defendant. Kimber is a registered sex offender since his conviction in the Iowa District Court for Polk County in 1993 for assault with intent to commit sexual abuse.

The case was investigated by the Iowa Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Council Bluffs Police Department, Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office, West Des Moines Police Department, and the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force. This case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.