Marty B. Jay Johnson, Possession of Child Pornography, Nebraska 2024

An Iowa man has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography in Nebraska.

Marty B. Jay Johnson, 44, of Sioux City, Iowa, was sentenced on December 12, 2024, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for possession of child pornography.

Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Johnson to 90 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system.

Johnson was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $80,000 to twenty identified victims of his crimes.

The investigation into Johnson’s crimes began with a ‘cyber tip’ received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding suspicious internet activity.

NCMEC’s resulting report to the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) indicated that twenty-four files containing child pornography (videos and single image files) were uploaded from Johnson’s internet protocol (IP) address to Kik, a free instant messaging mobile app, between April 27, 2021, and August 3, 2021.

On March 22, 2022, NSP served a warrant to search for child pornography at Johnson’s residence. Investigators seized sixteen devices for forensic examination.

Forensic examination of the devices yielded over 7,000 artifacts of child pornography on the various devices, including 2,155 minutes of videos showing child pornography.

The content included images of infants and toddlers, children less than 12 years of age, bestiality involving children, sadism and masochism involving children, and children 12 years of age and older.

Twenty-seven known victims were identified by hash value comparison of the digital files, of whom twenty sought restitution.

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

The Nebraska State Patrol investigated this case.

Mandatory Facts:

• Defendant: Marty B. Jay Johnson
• Criminal Charge: Possession of Child Pornography
• City and State: Sioux City, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska
• Date: December 12, 2024 (sentencing)
• Sentence: 90 months’ imprisonment
• Dollar Amounts: $80,000 restitution to victims

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