A Hampton man has been convicted by a federal jury on six counts of transporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Ryan Matthew Bieber, 31, uploaded several files containing CSAM between August 2020 and November 2021. The materials depicted adults engaged in sexually explicit conduct with children. After Google submitted a CyberTipLine report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Bieber’s Google account was immediately deactivated.
Bieber is scheduled to be sentenced on December 18. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and could receive up to 20 years. Federal district court judges determine sentences after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors, so actual sentences may be less than the maximum allowed by law.
The verdict was announced by Erik S. Siebert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Dominique Evans, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office; and Steve R. Drew, Chief of Newport News Police, following acceptance of the verdict by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth W. Hanes.
“Erik S. Siebert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Dominique Evans, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office; and Steve R. Drew, Chief of Newport News Police, made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Elizabeth W. Hanes accepted the verdict.”
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Devon Heath and Peter G. Osyf are prosecuting the case.
This prosecution is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative started by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to address child sexual exploitation and abuse through collaboration among federal, state, and local agencies to find offenders who exploit children online and help rescue victims. More information about Project Safe Childhood can be found at www.justice.gov/psc.
Court documents related to this case are available on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or via PACER under Case No. 4:25-cr-5.
