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A former hospital worker has been sentenced to prison after investigators discovered child sexual abuse material on his phone that a detective described as some of the most disturbing her unit had ever encountered.
Benjamin Naylor, 32, from Deer Park, Ohio, was sentenced on Monday to between seven and nine-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing illegal material involving children.
The former Christ Hospital scheduler pleaded guilty last month to eight counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor and one count of illegally using a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material.
Prosecutors said some of the material recovered from Naylor's cellphone involved an infant believed to be just two or three months old, while other victims were estimated to be between four and eight years old.
Cincinnati Police Detective Mary Braun told Hamilton County Common Pleas Court that the material found on Naylor's phone was among some of the very worst her unit had ever seen.
"The images that Mr. Naylor had were some of the absolute worst I’ve ever seen, and the chats were alarming," Braun said, according to FOX19.
"I’ve never seen chats like that."
Assistant Prosecutor Elyse Deters also made a disturbing claim about Naylor's views, telling the court: "He does not think child rape should be criminalized. In fact, he wants it legalized."
Naylor was arrested in December 2025 after being confronted outside the Christ Hospital Health and Aging Center in Cincinnati by Predator Poachers, a Texas-based group that monitors suspected online predators.
The group said it first encountered Naylor on Reddit while posing as a 13-year-old boy.
According to WCPO, Naylor allegedly told the undercover account that "age is just a number" before blocking it after becoming suspicious.
Members of the group later approached him at his workplace on December 3 while pretending to deliver a Secret Santa gift.
The roughly 40-minute encounter was livestreamed, and Predator Poachers founder Alex Rosen said Naylor admitted exchanging abusive material involving babies and toddlers.
Police were subsequently called to the hospital, leading to an investigation by the Regional Electronics and Computer Investigations Unit, a multi-agency task force that investigates internet crimes against children.
Detectives later found illegal images and videos on Naylor's phone that he had allegedly shared with a user called "Active Perv", according to court documents cited by the Enquirer.
Christ Hospital told WCPO that Naylor worked as a scheduler and did not have direct contact with patients. He was quickly fired after the hospital learned of his arrest.
Naylor's lawyer, John O'Shea, asked Judge Wende Cross to impose probation rather than a prison sentence.
O'Shea argued that Naylor had autism, an intellectual disability, visual impairment and a traumatic brain injury.
He also said Naylor was born with a congenital skull condition and underwent surgery when he was just five months old.
According to his lawyer, Naylor had received assistance from the Hamilton County Department of Developmental Disabilities since he was three.
O'Shea described his client as immature and vulnerable to manipulation, telling the court that Naylor had previously lost $14,000 to someone online who had pretended to be his girlfriend.
He also argued that Naylor initially did not understand the harm caused by viewing abusive material he had not personally created.
Deters rejected that characterization, arguing that Naylor's online conversations demonstrated that he understood his conduct was wrong.
The prosecutor also said Naylor's disabilities did not explain his sexual interest in children.
Before he was sentenced, Naylor apologized and accepted responsibility for his actions.
"I'm truly deeply sorry. I take full responsibility," he said, according to WLWT.
Judge Cross told Naylor that the files represented "documentary evidence of the sexual abuse of real children" and explained that distributing such material meant victims were effectively harmed again.
"You caused real harm to children who you never met," the judge said.
Cross added that Naylor's diagnoses did not excuse behavior that had continued over a sustained period.
Following his release from prison, Naylor will remain under supervision for five years and must register as a Tier II sex offender for 25 years.
He will also be required to undergo treatment.
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Residents in a small Ohio community are struggling to comprehend the horrific details emerging from a local home where 16 children were allegedly hidden away and abused.
Four adults have been arrested and charged with 17 counts of child endangerment after authorities discovered the victims living in squalor in the village of Hamden.
The suspects, identified as Gary Siders Jr., Gary Siders Sr., Christina Siders, and Elizabeth Siders, are being held on a $300,000 cash bond each.
The children, ranging in age from 18 months to 18 years, were found by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Vinton County Sheriff's Office.
Officials believe the children were locked inside a 12-by-12-foot room for nearly four years. Local law enforcement described the conditions inside the house as disgusting, noting that the property was littered with human feces.
A retail employee who interacted with the family just before their arrest is now sharing her memories of their late-night shopping trips. The encounters left workers concerned, though the true extent of the situation inside the home remained hidden until police intervened.
Ariel Gutierrez, an employee at the Hamden Dollar General, recalled that the family members were regular customers. They frequented the shop almost every night right before closing time to buy basic necessities like water, vegetable oil, and sugar. They usually brought only one child along during these visits.
Gutierrez told WSYX ABC 6: "I noticed that he would keep her really close to her, and she was not allowed to speak to nobody. And when she came in with the kids, the kids were all very thin, very, very thin.
"Ghost white, didn't have no weight on their body and they had their hair over their face, like to block out the outside world to not see them," she said.
Store workers noticed the poor condition of the family and attempted to provide assistance by offering clothes and hygiene products. However, Gutierrez noted that they never saw the family actually use any of the donated items.
In addition to the physical appearance of the children, a strong odor accompanied the family whenever they entered the store. This detail matches observations from state officials who helped rescue the children from the residence.
Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson mentioned that the smell inside the home was something he could not get away from.
"The smell to me, honestly, when I think about them and hear them, the smell will never leave my mind. I will always have that smell in my mind. Sad to say, just because it was so potent. Like they could have left the store five minutes ago and the store would still smell," Gutierrez said.
The discovery has left neighbors deeply shaken as they try to process how the situation went unnoticed for so long in a village of fewer than 1,000 people. The attorney general noted that the family was adept at keeping the children concealed and had moved around Ohio before settling in Vinton County.
Medical personnel transported the children to various hospitals across the state to receive treatment for their injuries. Some have been examined and released, while others required intensive care or transport to Level One trauma centers.
Officials stated that none of the children were enrolled in school, some cannot communicate at all, and the oldest child could not spell her own name.
"Some of these children couldn’t even speak," Wilson told reporters. "It was terrible. They looked like almost feral animals. It was terrible."
With the suspects currently in custody and barred from contacting one another or the victims, the local community is focused on recovery.
Gutierrez expressed her hopes for the future of the victims, stating, "I'm sorry, I should have said something sooner. And I'm praying and I know they're in better conditions now and they hopefully they get what they deserve."
A former ICU nurse has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison after he was found guilty of filming himself sexually assaulting unconscious patients.
Christopher P. Lambros, 62, was convicted and found guilty of six counts of felony attempted sexual assault after horrifying images were found on his phone depicting him assaulting women in the intensive care unit, according to Law & Crime.
The sentence was handed down by District Court Judge Gretchen B. Larson and entailed three years and eight months for each count, to be served consecutively.
This means the former Colorado nurse - who already served 410 days since his arrest - will spend 22 years in a state correctional facility, followed by a mandatory two-year parole upon release, per the outlet.
Lambros’ acts came to light in July 2022 after a colleague at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction walked into the ICU and shockingly found the former nurse engaging in a revolting act with an unconscious patient, per an arrest affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE.
The unnamed worker alleged that Lambros had the victim's gown pulled up, with his "head on the patient's stomach, with his face toward the patient's feet," as if he was in the act of taking a "selfie" with their breasts and genitals exposed.
After being caught in the act, he dropped his phone, covered the unconscious patient back up, and quickly fled the room. The witness then immediately reported the encounter to her supervisor.
Cops got involved and questioned the former healthcare professional, who claimed to be doing a medical procedure on the unconscious patient and said that he'd been having "workplace issues" with the employee who reported him.
However, authorities seized his phone and recovered thousands of photos and videos of him in the hospital donning his scrubs, and "sucking on victims' breasts and digitally penetrating victims," as stated in the publication.
In addition to this, one of the harrowing clips allegedly revealed Lambros saying: "Don't ever get rid of these videos," and stating that the videos were his "Dexter collection" - a reference to the Showtime television show Dexter, about a serial killer.
Lambros was arrested in October 2022 after being sent home on administrative leave in July.
According to Dan Rubinstein, District Attorney for Mesa County, the victims were all female and 45 years or older.
Rubinstein disclosed that there were between 40 to 50 photographs of each incident, and noted that the timeline of the assaults remains a matter of dispute as Lambros claimed the assaults took place between 2021 and 2022, however, there is apparent proof that the assaults go as far back as 2016.
Speaking about the outcome, the Mesa County District Attorney said: "We’re very pleased with the outcome primarily because all of the victim families are pleased with it," as cited by KREX.
"Of the people we were able to identify, which was five different victims, only two of them are still alive. We were able to contact the family members of the deceased victims and make sure they were comfortable with this outcome as well," they added.
A mother has been left horrified after a New Jersey babysitter was accused of leaving behind a phone containing shocking footage, according to court papers.
Victoria Anne Cranmer, 25, appeared in Ocean County Superior Court on Tuesday morning and was ordered held without bail, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said.
She was arrested after videos were found on her phone of her sexually assaulting a toddler, it has been alleged.
The video of the young boy, who was still in diapers at the time of the assault, was recorded in a Snapchat video, prosecutors have claimed.
According to the filing, Cranmer had been living with a childhood friend who gave her a place to stay, bought her an iPhone 17 Pro and set her up with cell service in April for her birthday.
The friend also allowed Cranmer to babysit her daughter. But after Cranmer was kicked out in early May, she was told to return the phone. The device was left in the woman’s mailbox, the documents allege, and it had no passcode.
When the friend checked the phone, she allegedly found a 14-second Snapchat video showing Cranmer in a bathroom with a young boy touching her while she sat on the toilet. The court papers say Cranmer could be heard laughing and taunting the child in the clip.
The boy was reportedly the son of another woman, identified in the filing as “Ms. H,” who had also used Cranmer as a babysitter.
After noticing her son no longer wanted baths, the mother was later told by the boy that Cranmer had bathed with him, the documents allege.
Ms. P., the friend who discovered the video, was reportedly so “freaked out” that she saved the clip and blocked Cranmer from Snapchat.
She claimed that she recognized Cranmer by her leg tattoos, including one depicting a pair of breasts, her voice, and the fact that the video was filmed in her own bathroom.
The filing also claims Cranmer had taken other bathroom videos involving herself and the boy and sent at least one to another Snapchat account, although it was not clear whether those clips included explicit material. Prosecutors said Cranmer did not send the video showing the alleged assault.
Cranmer has since been charged with second-degree sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, manufacturing child sexual abuse material, and possession of child sexual abuse material. Her defense lawyer was not immediately known.
A New Jersey woman has been arrested after allegedly recording herself sexually assaulting a child under 13 and sharing the footage on Snapchat.
Investigators identified her through a distinctive tattoo on her leg.
Victoria Anne Cranmer, 25, of Little Egg Harbor, was charged on Tuesday with second-degree sexual assault, second-degree manufacturing of child sexual abuse material, third-degree possession of child sexual abuse material, and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child.
She is being held without bail at Ocean County Jail.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, investigators were able to identify Cranmer through several distinctive tattoos visible in the 14-second recording.
One of the tattoos, located on her leg, depicts breasts.
The tattoo proved to be the critical piece of evidence linking Cranmer to the footage.
Without it, identifying suspects in child abuse material can take investigators months or even years.
The investigation did not begin with a tip from Snapchat or a report from a concerned member of the public. It began with a returned phone.
According to court documents, the mobile phone used to record the footage had been given to Cranmer as a birthday present by a former roommate.
After a falling out, the roommate asked Cranmer to move out and to leave the phone behind.
While reviewing the phone's contents after getting it back, the roommate discovered the recording. They saved the video and turned the device over to investigators.
The case was referred to the Little Egg Harbor Police Department and the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office Special Victims Unit on May 20 by the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency.
Detectives obtained search warrants for both the phone and Cranmer's Snapchat account.
On the account, they found additional videos saved in Snapchat's Memories feature, a function that allows users to store content within the app.
Several of the videos showed Cranmer and the alleged victim in a bathroom.
At least one was shared on Snapchat, according to New Jersey 101.5.
The original 14-second clip, which court documents describe as showing the assault of a child under 13, was recorded on May 6 inside the bathroom of a home in Little Egg Harbor while the child was in Cranmer's care.
According to documents cited by NJ.com, Cranmer can be heard laughing while the alleged assault takes place.
Cranmer faces four charges in total.
Second-degree sexual assault and second-degree manufacturing of child sexual abuse material are the most serious, each carrying significant prison time under New Jersey law.
She also faces third-degree possession of child sexual abuse material and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child.
She was booked into Ocean County Jail and is being held without bail pending further proceedings. No court date has been publicly announced.
The charges are similar in nature to those brought against adult film actor Austin Wolf, who was recently sentenced to 19 years in prison after being found in possession of hundreds of videos depicting sexual abuse of minors, including footage involving infants.
Snapchat's Memories function allows users to save Snaps and Stories within the app rather than to their phone's camera roll.
Content saved in Memories is stored on Snapchat's servers and can be accessed by the user at any time.
In this case, investigators obtained a warrant for Cranmer's Snapchat account and were able to recover additional videos that had been saved using the feature.
The fact that the content was stored within Snapchat rather than on the phone itself meant it would not have been visible to the roommate who discovered the original clip on the device.
It also means the videos were accessible to Snapchat as a platform.
Under US federal law, electronic service providers are required to report any child sexual abuse material they become aware of to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
It is not clear whether Snapchat flagged the content before investigators obtained the warrant.
Cranmer remains in custody at Ocean County Jail.
The investigation is being handled by the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office Special Victims Unit in conjunction with the Little Egg Harbor Police Department.
Prosecutors have not indicated whether additional charges may follow, though the discovery of multiple videos on both the phone and Cranmer's Snapchat account suggests the investigation is ongoing.
The identity of the child has not been made public.
The victim is confirmed to be under 13 years old.
A disturbing Facebook post allegedly written by the mother of the 16 children recently rescued from an Ohio home has resurfaced, years before she and three of her relatives were charged over the children's living conditions.
Elizabeth Siders, 33, along with her husband, Gary Siders Jr., 36, and his parents, Gary Siders Sr., 73, and Christina Siders, 67, have each been charged with second-degree felony child endangering after authorities discovered 16 children living in squalid conditions inside a property in rural Vinton County.
Investigators said the children, who range in age from 18 months to 18 years old, had reportedly been confined to a single room for much of the past four years.
The home was littered with human waste, and officials said several of the children showed severe developmental delays.
One 18-year-old with developmental disabilities was reportedly unable to write her own name, while some of the younger children were unable to speak.
Describing the scene officers encountered, Vinton County Sheriff Ryan Cain said: "Most of our livestock was kept in better conditions than the children."
Authorities are now reviewing a proposed $1 million emergency funding package to support the children following their rescue on June 30.
As the investigation continues, attention has turned to an old Facebook post published on June 5, 2014, from Gary Siders Jr.'s account, which was allegedly written by Elizabeth Siders.
The post read: "this is elizabeth i dont want any one putting pictures of me on facebook every one if you have any pictures of me on here please take them off here !"
Elizabeth would have been 21 years old when the message was posted.
According to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office, investigators only uncovered the children after executing a search warrant as part of an unrelated investigation.
Officials admitted they had no idea what they were about to find.
"We didn't know there were going to be 16 kids there," Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said during a press conference.
Reflecting on the conditions inside the property, Wilson added: "It's the type of thing that we're not used to seeing here in America."
Authorities believe the children spent most of their time inside a room measuring roughly 12 feet by 12 feet. While Sheriff Cain declined to explain exactly how they were kept there, he confirmed investigators did not discover any cages inside the house.
Several of the children required urgent medical attention after they were rescued. Seven were taken to hospitals in Columbus, while two others were airlifted by helicopter. Officials said one child remained in critical condition.
Wilson described the children's appearance as shocking.
"They looked like almost feral animals," he said. "It was terrible."
The children have since been placed in the temporary care of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Vinton County Prosecutor William Archer said the four adults face second-degree felony child endangering charges because the allegations involve "serious physical harm."
During an initial court appearance on July 1, a judge entered not guilty pleas on behalf of all four defendants and set bond at $300,000 each. Although preliminary hearings had been scheduled for July 7, the defendants later waived their right to those hearings.
Investigators are still working to establish how all 16 children are related. Steve Irwin, a spokesperson for the attorney general's office, declined to confirm whether they are all siblings.
Authorities believe the family moved between communities in southern Ohio over the past two decades while avoiding contact with schools, healthcare providers and government agencies.
"These folks were pretty good at hiding these kids," Wilson said.
Investigators are also examining whether the family had ever previously come to the attention of child protection services.
One neighbour, Joseph Stewart, who has lived on the street for six years, said he had never seen any children at the property despite passing it regularly.
"No kids at all," Stewart said, describing the area as "a quiet neighborhood." He added: "It's a sad situation."
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