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Grinnell man sentenced to prison on child porn charges

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November 26th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — A Grinnell man will spend more than 20 years in a federal prison on child pornography charges. Forty-three-year-old John Urfer pleaded guilty in July to receiving child pornography. He was found to have 13-hundred images and 29-hundred videos of child pornography.

Urfer also admitted he had been convicted of third-degree intent to commit sex abuse in Marion County in 2003 and third-degree sex abuse in Polk County in 2005.

He was convicted twice for failing to comply with the Iowa Sex Offender Registry requirements. The U-S District Court Judge Sentenced him to 260 months in prison and ordered him to pay 21-thousand dollars in restitution to the victims identified in the images and videos.