Robert A. Ryan, Distributing Child Pornography, Nebraska 2023

A Bellevue man has been sentenced to 110 months in prison for distributing child pornography, federal authorities announced.

Robert A. Ryan, 35, was sentenced to 110 months’ imprisonment on February 23, 2023 in federal court in Omaha by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher for distribution of child pornography, according to Acting United States Attorney Susan Lehr.

After his release from prison, Ryan will begin a five-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

The case against Ryan began on September 17, 2021, when Kik, a social media application, identified at least two videos of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct that were distributed to others on the Kik application.

Kik captured the Internet Protocol (IP) address that was used to distribute the videos as well as the Kik account name. Law enforcement obtained information related to the IP addresses, which ultimately identified Ryan as the subscriber and his residence in Bellevue, Nebraska.

Law enforcement executed a search of Ryan’s residence and seized his cellular phone. Forensic analysis of the cellular phone found numerous images of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.

Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

This case was investigated by the Omaha FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

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