A motocross instructor who mentored kids received a 40-year prison sentence on Wednesday, according to authorities.
Ryan Meyung was also ordered to pay at least $193,500 in restitution for sexually abusing numerous kids.
According to court documents, Meyung, 33, of no fixed address, sexually exploited multiple young children that he met and befriended while traveling the country as a motocross instructor between July 2019 and December 2021.
As part of his predatory behavior, Meyung produced images and videos of six different minor victims engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including sex acts with him and with each other.
The victims were between 6 and 13 years old at the time.
Meyung also had access to and carried around images and videos of other sex offenders abusing children, as well as sexually abusing and recording other children engaging in sexually explicit behavior.
Meyung pleaded guilty in April to six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor (producing child sexual abuse material) and has been in custody since his arrest in December 2021.
Homeland Security Investigations in Chattanooga investigated the case.
Trial Attorneys Jessica L. Urban and James E. Burke IV of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin N. Spritzer for the Northern District of Georgia prosecuted the case.