Former children’s hospital employee sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for sharing, receiving child pornography

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former Nationwide Children's Hospital employee who treated child burn victims was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 210 months in prison for downloading, exchanging and receiving child pornography.

Ryan Ramos, 38, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in May 2024 to one count of distributing and receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.

Ramos possessed a large quantity of child sexual abuse material, including more than 42,000 images and approximately 8,500 videos. As part of this case, more than 700 victims have been identified.

Ramos worked at Nationwide Children's Hospital from 2018 until 2020 and then at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in the ICU in burn trauma until 2023.

According to court documents, a 2020 FBI investigation in their Brooklyn-Queens office led agents to discover Ramos's participation in a Signal app group dedicated to the exchange of child pornography.

Ramos shared hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse, including abuse of young boys and infants, to the chat group.

Further investigation into Ramos revealed that, in 2018, he had paid a sexual offender in New York City and received child pornography created by the offender in exchange for his payment. Ramos sent more than $500 via PayPal to the child exploiter.

Ramos's iPhone contained more than 346,000 Signal, Telegram and other online chat messages, in most of which Ramos was distributing, seeking, receiving or discussing child pornography.

Kenneth L. Parker, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and Elena Iatarola, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cincinnati Division, announced the sentence imposed today by U.S. District Judge Sarah D. Morrison. Assistant United States Attorney Emily Czerniejewski is representing the United States in this case.

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