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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A former children's hospital nurse who was found guilty of possessing child pornography will serve over 17 years in prison.
According to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office Southern District of Ohio, 38-year-old Ryan Ramos, who pleaded guilty to one count each of distributing and receiving child pornography and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison.
Ramos, of Columbus, was a nurse at Nationwide Children’s Hospital from 2018 to 2020 and at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center in the ICU burn trauma ward until 2023.
An FBI investigation beginning in 2020 led agents to discover Ramos’s participation in a Signal app group dedicated to the exchange of child sexual material. He shared hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse, including the abuse of young boys and infants.
In total, Ramos possessed more than 42,000 images and approximately 8,500 videos depicting child sexual abuse. As part of his case, more than 700 victims were identified.
Additionally, the investigation of Ramos revealed that in 2018, he had paid a sexual offender in New York more than $500 via PayPal and received child pornography created by the offender.
Ramos’s phone also contained more than 346,000 Signal, Telegram and other online chat messages, most of which Ramos was distributing, seeking, receiving or discussing child pornography.
A guilty plea was submitted in May with Ramos facing up to 20 years in prison.
