For the second time in the past week, an Anchorage man was convicted of child pornography-related charges.
Anchorage music teacher Stuart Ravn, 26, was convicted on nearly two dozen child pornography-related charges Wednesday, according to the state Department of Law. Ravn, who gave music lessons to children out of his parents’ home, was part of a “sophisticated internet-based Russian child pornography ring,” the DOL said.
Ravn had and distributed many videos and images that sexually exploited children as young as toddlers. Some of the counts involve depictions of masochism, sadism and sexual penetration.
Ravn’s 22-count conviction was the second such conviction in less than a week, the state attorney general’s office wrote in a statement Wednesday afternoon. On July 11, the DOL said 32-year-old Anchorage resident Richard O’Connor was also convicted of six counts of possession and distribution of child pornography. For at least a decade, O’Connor possessed and distributed images and videos of sexual sadism and sexual penetration involving children as young as 6 years old.
Both men face a sentencing range of two to 12 years on each count, prosecutors said. Ravn’s sentencing is slated for Nov. 14 and O’Connor is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 21. The cases were investigated by the Anchorage Police Department’s Cyber Crimes Unit and prosecuted by the DOL’s Office of Special Prosecutions.