Former Corrections Officer Sentenced For Distributing Child Pornography
Friday, June 27, 2025, 3:30 P.M. ET. 3 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A 44-year-old Brooklyn, New York, woman, and a former corrections officer with the New York City Department of Corrections, will be spending the next fifteen years in federal prison after being sentenced on Wednesday for distributing video files depicting the sexual exploitation and abuse of children.
According to U.S. Attorney David Metcalf, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, Celeste Ramirez, 44, of Brooklyn, New York, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl to 180 months in federal prison, to be followed by ten years of supervised release for her previously entered guilty plea to Distribution of Child Pornography.
In handing down the sentence on Wednesday, in addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Schmehl ordered Ramirez to pay $38,000 in restitution to her identified victims. Ramirez, upon completion of her term of imprisonment, will be required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Ramirez was charged with the offense by federal indictment in March 2023 and pleaded guilty to the charge in March 2025.
According To Court Documents
According to the charging documents filed with the District Court, in February 2022, Ramirez, then a corrections officer employed by the New York City Department of Corrections, distributed six video files depicting child pornography through Telegram, an online instant messaging application, to Person 1, only identified as an individual located in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Ramirez’s deviant sexual conduct came to light during an investigation into child exploitation crimes committed by Person 1. In 2022, the Pennsylvania State Police received a CyberTip indicating that Person 1, of Easton, Pennsylvania, had utilized their Snapchat account to distribute child pornography. During questioning, Person 1 confessed to receiving child pornography over the internet, and specifically from a corrections officer in New York City known as “CeCe,” later identified as Ramirez.
Federal Agents Uncover Hundreds Media Files
In November 2022, Federal Agents executed a court-authorized search warrant at Ramirez’s Brooklyn, New York home and found hundreds of video files of child pornography on her cellular phone. Further investigation uncovered that in addition to Person 1, Ramirez communicated with multiple other individuals online for the purpose of distributing and receiving digital images and video files of child pornography.
One of those users, Cleveland Dewayne Chambers, who was charged elsewhere, told Ramirez that another woman he was chatting with over the internet had offered to produce sexually explicit images of an infant. That woman was later identified as Raven Pointer, who was later charged elsewhere.
Ramirez Directs Another User How To Sexually Abuse An Infant
Chambers shared images that he received from Pointer with Ramirez. Chambers and Ramirez discussed how the infant should be sexually abused and reflected on the digital images produced. Ramirez then repeatedly instructed Chambers to have Pointer film herself engaged in sexual acts with the infant. Chambers responded by sharing additional sexually explicit digital images and video files produced by Pointer with Ramirez.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the U.S. Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of the sexual exploitation and abuse of children.