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An Iowa City man was sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge to 11 years in prison on a charge of receipt of child pornography.

According to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa, Heath Ashley Harmon, 49, received, uploaded, and distributed files that contained child sexual abuse material.

Law enforcement discovered Harmon was distributing child pornography around the internet during an online investigation into the file sharing software BitTorrent. He distributed the content between August 2023 and January 2024. Law enforcement then performed a search warrant at his Iowa City residence and found he had stored child pornography on seven de

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