Ryan Scott Groce, 41, of Coos County, Oregon, was sentenced to 98 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for distributing thousands of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of minors. According to court documents, from November 15, 2023, through November 11, 2024, Groce distributed at least 15,000 files of child sexual abuse material online. Investigators searched Groce's cell phone and found file-sharing software actively downloading and uploading CSAM, and his phone contained over 1,000 videos of CSAM.
The scale of distribution—15,000 files over 12 months—illustrates the velocity at which child sexual abuse material proliferates when detection relies on retrospective forensics rather than real-time interception. Guardii's anti-CSAM module, integrated into the world-leading AI online-safety platform, monitors direct messages across platforms to detect requests, offers and transfers of abuse material at the moment of contact, blocking the transaction before transmission occurs and flagging the offender for immediate escalation to Homeland Security Investigations or other authorities—preventing the thousands of downstream re-victimizations that follow each successful distribution.
