According to a court ruling, a professor at St. Augustine Secondary School was accused by the federal government of distributing sexual abuse materials to children while they were in custody.
Ryan Bennett Segura, 27, was arrested last week on suspicion of engaging in sexually explicit behavior with minors with an unidentified Denver resident. Segura allegedly acknowledges that investigators shared child sexual abuse material with the Denver man and admits to seeing such material every two months, but he claims that he would like to do so sometime in March 2025, according to an FBI special agent who confirmed this in a probable cause statement last week.
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During a court hearing held on March to determine whether Segura would remain in custody, a fiscal official confirmed that Segura had shared non-sexual photos of his alumni with another guy and that the two of them discussed his sexual attraction toward the alumni.
Amanda Griffith, the fiscal adjudicator for the United States, argued before the court that Segura was a burden on the community because “has elegido dedicarse a profession n que le permite estar rodeado de personas por las que siente atracci n sexual.”
Additionally, they affirm that Segura “has broken the promise he made to the school’s students by violating their confidence.” The fiscal does not identify the other man with whom Segura may have been in contact and does not specify whether he was facing criminal charges, but he affirms that he had “a trabajo de cara al p blico en otro state.”
The following statement was made by St. Augustine President Ed Hearn to NBC 7 late on March:
“The recent revelations against Sr. Segura are extremely concerning. As our family, the Saints, continues to achieve this significant success, our top priority is the safety and well-being of our girls. All of the Saints’ members have been offered assistance, and we are at the mercy of their families. Additionally, we continue to work closely with the authorities and have started the process of conducting a formal investigation to fully understand what happened and how we can help the Saints community move forward.
Nicholas DePento, Segura’s attorney, believes that Segura can be placed in preventative liberty at his aunt’s house, where a GPS device can be used to monitor his movements.
Additionally, they denied that their client would have committed any crimes against the community and told federal judge Valerie Torres that the taxpayers had not found any evidence that they had committed any crimes against any of their students.
Segura is accused of spreading the genes of men who engage in sexually explicit behavior, which has a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of twenty years in prison.
According to Segura’s LinkedIn page, he is a religious professor and a coach for athletics at St. Augustine who has been employed at the school since the middle of 2021. Previously, as stated in the p.g., I worked as a secondary school teacher at the Di Cesis de San Diego in Vista.
In a communication released last week, Hearn stated that Segura would be suspended from his duties until the conclusion of the school’s internal and criminal investigations.
