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Lamark Armond Combs, Jr. Sentenced for Child Pornography, Iowa 2021
A Davenport man, Lamark Armond Combs, Jr., has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography. The sentence was handed down by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey on Thursday, October 14, 2021. Combs was also ordered to serve ten years of supervised release to follow his prison term and to pay $300.00 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
Combs, 21, was identified by law enforcement after the mother of a 15-year-old girl reported to the Davenport Police Department that Combs had requested her daughter send him a sexually explicit video of herself and she had complied. At the time, DPD had two open sexual assault investigations of Combs, one relating to a 13-year-old girl and the other relating to a 15-year-old girl.
Through their investigation, law enforcement determined Combs engaged in a pattern of soliciting, enticing, and grooming minor females on social media and had the girls send him nude images and videos of themselves and coerced the girls to have sex with him. In Combs’s electronic devices and accounts, law enforcement located seven images and 23 videos depicting child pornography, in addition to 50-100 images of sexually explicit images that law enforcement was unable to determine if minors were pictured.
Combs pleaded guilty to the offenses on June 9, 2021. The case was investigated by the Davenport Police Department and was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Project Safe Childhood” initiative.
As part of the initiative, law enforcement investigations and prosecutions, community action, and public awareness are combined to reduce the incidence of sexual exploitation of children. Any persons having knowledge of a child being sexually abused are encouraged to call the Iowa Sexual Abuse Hotline at 1-800-284-7821.
The prosecution of Combs sends a strong message that those who engage in such heinous crimes will be held accountable. The community is safer with Combs behind bars, and we hope that this case will serve as a warning to others who would seek to harm our children.
Key Facts
- State: Iowa
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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