On May 22, 2018, Ryan Bono, 37, of Oro Valley, was sentenced to 87 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to two counts of distribution of child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of knowing access of child pornography.
Bono’s term of imprisonment will be followed by lifetime supervised release, with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that he register as a sex offender.
Bono was a language arts teacher at Math and Science Success Academy and a youth soccer coach. A 2017 investigation by HSI revealed that Bono had been distributing sexually explicit images of children online using file-sharing software. A search of Bono’s computers and media storage devices revealed that he had downloaded hundreds of images and videos depicting sexual abuse of pre-pubescent children.
In handing down the sentence, the Court found that Bono posed a danger, in part because he had placed himself around children by working as a middle school teacher and soccer coach.