(Sioux City)—A Fenton man has been indicted on federal child sexual exploitation charges.
The charges against 53-year-old Timothy Koenck are contained in an indictment unsealed April 22nd in U.S. District Court in Sioux City. It alleges that between 2010 and 2012 Koenck enticed a minor to engage in sexual activity, traveled across a state line to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and that he received and possessed child pornography after having been convicted of enticement of a minor and possession of child pornography in 2001 through 2002.
If convicted Koenck faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of life imprisonment; $1,750,000 in fines; $700 in special assessments and atleast five years and up to life on supervised release following any imprisonment.
Koenck appeared April 22nd in federal court and was held without bond. He’s scheduled to go on trial July 1st.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Kossuth County Sheriff’s Office and the Mower county, Minnesota Sheriff’s Office.
