Columbus registered sex offender sentenced to 22 years in prison for child pornography crimes

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ryan C. Driscoll, 42, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 264 months in prison for distributing and receiving child pornography.

According to court documents, in June 2025, HSI Columbus received a tip from HSI Hague regarding Driscoll, who was communicating online with the username "diaperundiesdude." Driscoll was a registered sex offender at the time and was a member of multiple online groups dedicated to the distribution of child sexual abuse material.

Driscoll's online activity involved child pornography depicting infants, toddlers and young children, as well as a category known as "hurtcore."

A forensic review of Driscoll's cell phone revealed more than 1,000 videos and 800 images of child sexual abuse.

Driscoll also had a former federal conviction in the Southern District of Ohio for possessing child pornography. He was sentenced in 2012 to five years in prison. Driscoll was under federal supervised release at the time of his new offense. As such, he was sentenced to an additional 10 months in prison for violating the rules of his supervised release to be served consecutively to the 22-year term of imprisonment.

The defendant was charged in this current case in July 2025 and pleaded guilty in November 2025.

Dominick S. Gerace II, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and Jared Murphey, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Detroit, announced the sentence imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Algenon L. Marbley. Assistant United States Attorney Emily Czerniejewski is representing the United States in this case.

This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorney's Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), 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.

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