Chris Ragano, a Tampa lawyer, was detained as a s*x offender after confessing to owning hundreds of child pornography photos and transmitting some of them across state lines.

Ragano pled guilty to 33 counts of child pornography possession with ten or more photographs and one count of child pornography transfer out-of-state, according to court documents.

In June 2021, he was arrested twice by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in a nine-day period.

Today, a Tampa, FL lawyer pled guilty to:

33 felony counts of possession of illegal child p-rn

1 count electronic out-of-state transmission

He was sentenced to:

Only 6 months in jail

Chris Ragano, 51 pic.twitter.com/3wrOONOPVZ

— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) January 12, 2022

According to State Attorney spokeswoman Kamm Grayson, Ragano was sentenced to six months in prison, with credit for time served as part of the plea deal.

Grayson further stated that the sentence includes an eight-year s*x offender probation, electronic location tracking, and no unsupervised contact with children.

Chris Ragano, an attorney, was born in 1970 and is now 51 years old.

Meanwhile, while Ragano’s name does not appear on Wikipedia, certain online pages contain ample information about the attorney.

He graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Economics.

Attorney Chris Ragano has served the #Tampa Bay community for 25+ years. From the time that you retain our firm to represent you, we are working on a strategic trial plan designed to #protect your children and your assets. pic.twitter.com/xzRtDxTyqo

— NorthTampaLegalGroup (@TampaGroup) June 12, 2020

Chris then went on to earn his Doctor of Law (JD) in Family and Martial Law from the South Texas College of Law in 1996.

He has been an Owner and Marital & Family Law Attorney at The Law Firm of Chris E. Ragano, P.A. since 2005.

Ragano has also been the Principal Attorney of South Tampa Law Group for over 37 years.

According to Facebook posts, Chris Ragano is married to his lovely wife, Jill Ragano.

Chris and Jill got married in July 2016. Similarly, the pair welcomed their first child, a son, after their first anniversary in 2017.

Ragano often shares pictures with his wife and son on his Facebook posts.

Except for that, no further information is accessible regarding his wife, Jill, in internet portals.