Oklahoma man gets 60 years behind bars for online images showing him sexually abusing children

A man who created and advertised child porn images that showed him sexually abusing two children was sentenced in the Northern District of Oklahoma’s federal court on January 21.

U.S. District Judge John E. Dowdell sentenced Ryan David Miller, 34, of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, to 60 years in federal prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Miller previously pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child by a parent, advertising child pornography, distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography back in August 2020.

During his hearing on Thursday, the court appointed representative for the two children told the Court that both children had expressed “sheer terror” at the thought of having any contact with Miller in the future.

“Pedophiles like Ryan Miller belong in prison where they no longer have access to children. Miller not only molested two young children, he boasted about it online and shared images of the abuse to an online group frequented by pedophiles. Fortunately, an undercover FBI agent was in search of child predators that day and discovered Miller’s heinous crimes,” said U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.

“I’m thankful for Assistant U.S. Attorneys Chris Nassar and Edward Snow who take on these challenging cases and fight for the child victims.”

According to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in the case, an undercover FBI agent was on a Kik Messaging Group when the agent received a message from Ryan Miller on February 3, 2020. During their conversation Miller explained in detail sexual abuse he had committed against a 10-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl and provided child pornography images of the female victim.

On February 4, agents executed a search warrant at Millers home in Sapulpa. The court documents stated that Miller admitted to sexually abusing the male victim at least 20 times and the female victims at least four times. He also admitted to taking at least 50 images of the children engaged in sexually explicit behavior.

Other than his pleading guilty to the charge of sexual exploitation of a child by a parent, law enforcement was not clear on exactly what Miller’s relationship was to the two youngsters.

The case against Miller 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.

(Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma)

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