North Liberty man to serve 10 years in federal prison for child porn

A North Liberty man was sentenced last week to more than 10 years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography.

Edwin Hadley Donnan, 45, pleaded guilty last month to one count of receiving and distributing child pornography May 29, 2009. Donnan was sentenced to 130 months in prison Friday in U.S. District Court.

According to the plea agreement, Donnan admitted to uploading six child pornography images to a "G Boys" social network. He also searched and downloaded child pornography, and distributed child pornography to others directly and by posting to a website.

Law enforcement received a Cyber Tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children indicating that a certain internet protocol, IP, address was associated with uploading child pornography to the “G Boys” social network, according to court documents. It was then established this IP address belonged to an internet account of Donnan's.

A search warrant was executed at Donnan's residence Dec. 17, 2009 and several of the items seized contained child pornography.