TOLEDO, Ohio — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Toledo man to 14 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the receipt and distribution of child pornography.
Zachary Ryan Balusik, 41, was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release, a $100 special assessment and ordered to pay restitution of $12,000.
According to court documents, "Balusik was identified entering online chat rooms that involved streaming videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children."
Balusik was arrested in February 2022, after the Cleveland Division of the FBI and the Northwest Ohio Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force executed a search warrant at his home and found two flash drives containing images of prepubescent children.
He also admitted to investigators that he had been "downloading and viewing child pornography" for over 10 years.
Balusik also previously told investigators he was a supervisory nurse at a local hospital.
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