Sex Offender Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison

A Dubuque sex offender has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography. 33 year old Robert Lippstock was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids after pleading guilty to charges of receipt and of possession of child pornography. Judge C.J. Williams also ordered that Lippstock serve 10 years of supervised release following his prison term. A report says Lippstock admitted to receiving and possessing child pornography from 2019 to 2020. Lippstock posed as multiple teenagers online and fooled minors into thinking he was their friend in order to facilitate sexually explicit communication with them. He then received and distributed sexual material online through at least eight separate social media aliases.