Hospital Worker Busted Over Child Porn Cache

A Cincinnati hospital worker accused of trading child sex abuse material was sentenced after police said they found a trove of images and videos on his phone that detectives described as among the worst they had ever seen. Benjamin Naylor, 32, of Deer Park, Ohio, was first drawn into the case through an online vigilante sting before investigators say the search of his cellphone uncovered abuse material involving victims as young as two months old.

According to the account, Naylor was contacted by Predator Poachers, a group that posed online as a 13-year-old boy. He reportedly told the decoy, “Age is just a number,” before being confronted at the Cincinnati hospital where he worked. He later admitted during a 40-minute livestreamed confrontation that he had exchanged child porn. Police then say they recovered videos and images on his phone, including footage in which a child can be heard screaming for the attacker to stop.

At sentencing, Cincinnati Police Detective Mary Braun told Judge Wende Cross that the case stood out even in a long career of handling exploitation investigations. Braun said the images Naylor possessed were some of the “absolute worst” she had ever seen, and she described the chats as alarming and deeply disturbing. Prosecutors said one online exchange involved Naylor using the app handle “Active Perv,” and in the conversation he described a sexual fantasy involving a “perv dad and his boy.” Braun said her unit had not seen chats like that before.

Naylor pleaded guilty to eight counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor and one count of illegal use of a minor or impaired person in a state of nudity. Judge Cross sentenced him to seven to nine and a half years in prison. He will also have to undergo treatment and register as a tier two sex offender.