DES MOINES, IA – On June 19, 2017, Nicole Lynn Sanders, age 33, formerly of South Carolina, appeared before United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose and was sentenced to five years probation for failure to pay child support, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Sanders was sentenced to five years of probation for each of two charges of failure to pay child support, to be served concurrently. Sanders was ordered to serve six months of her probation in a halfway house, and six months in home confinement with GPS monitoring. Sanders was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of the unpaid child support.
On March 17, 2017, Sanders pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to pay child support. Sanders admitted while she was living outside of Iowa, she failed to pay child support for two children for over two years. Sanders’ child support obligation for one of her children was over $10,000. Between June 2010 and January 2017, when she was arrested for these offenses, Sanders had made no child support payments for either child.
This investigation was conducted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
