LOGAN — A 38-year-old Nibley man has admitted to downloading child pornography. Ryan Zabriskie has been in the Cache County Jail after law enforcement raided his home in March.
According to court records, Zabriskie appeared Sept. 30 in Logan’s 1st District Court. He accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. Seven remaining charges were dismissed by prosecutors.
According to law enforcement, Logan City Police officers received a report in December 2023, reporting Zabriskie had saved a video file to a cloud service from his cell phone. The file showed a girl, between 5 and 7-years-old, being raped by an adult male.
Police were able to track the cell phone number and found 10 additional child pornography files saved to the cloud service. The number was registered to Zabriskie.
On March 21, police served a warrant to Zabriskie’s home and took him into custody. During a search of the residence, several electronic devices were seized, including a computer that was logged into a pornography site, court documents detailed.
While searching Zabriskie’s bedroom, police reportedly found “a large number of different articles of women’s underwear.” Some of the articles of clothing included “several pairs of young girl’s underwear that were stained.”
Zabriskie is being held in jail without bail. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 4, and could face more than 15 years in prison.