Columbus Man Sentenced to 22 Years for Child Pornography Crimes
Ryan C. Driscoll received a 264-month prison sentence for distributing and receiving child sexual abuse material.
2 reports on this incident · first at Aug 18, 2026, 11:25 a.m. ET
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Aug 18, 2026, 11:25 a.m. ETFirst report
Columbus Sex Offender Sentenced to 22 Years for Child Pornography Offenses
According to the sentencing announcement issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio, drawn from court documents in the case before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Ryan C. Driscoll, 42, of Columbus, was sentenced on August 18, 2026, to 264 months — 22 years — in prison for distributing and receiving child pornography. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon L. Marbley also imposed an additional 10 months in prison, to be served consecutively to the 22-year term, for violating the rules of Driscoll's federal supervised release.
The same record states that HSI Columbus received a tip in June 2025 from HSI Hague regarding Driscoll, who was communicating online using 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. According to court documents, his 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.
Court documents cited in the announcement also show that Driscoll had a former federal conviction in the Southern District of Ohio for possessing child pornography, and that he was sentenced in 2012 to five years in prison. He was under federal supervised release at the time of the new offense. He was charged in the 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 of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in Detroit, announced the sentence imposed by Judge Marbley. Assistant United States Attorney Emily Czerniejewski is representing the United States in the case, which the office says is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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