Hazim Kapic, Child Pornography, Iowa 2025

A Bosnian man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. Hazim Kapic, 61, from Bosnia, who was living in Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a September 17, 2025, guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography.

In a plea agreement, Kapic admitted that he downloaded child pornography from February 2020 until August 2024. In August 2024, law enforcement officers searched his home in Waterloo, Iowa, and seized a hard drive with thousands of images and videos of child pornography, including of prepubescent minors.

Kapic had depictions of child pornography involving an infant or toddler, and depictions involving sadistic and masochistic conduct.

Kapic was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams. He was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment and was ordered to make $18,000 in restitution to victims in the case.

He must also serve a five-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Kapic is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Devra T. Hake and investigated by the Waterloo Police Department and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

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