Lady’s Island man faces charges for felony exploitation of a minor, police say
A Lady’s Island man working as a summer camp counselor turned himself in to Beaufort County authorities Thursday after he was accused of uploading child sex abuse material to the internet, according to a sheriff’s office alert.
Andrew Graves, 19, was charged Thursday with three counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and three counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, jail records show.
Graves was charged after the Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) team, a task force developed to respond to cases of child exploitation and sexual abuse material on the internet, picked up on sexual abuse material being uploaded to social media from a Lady’s Island address
Officials from the S.C. Law Enforcement Division were contacted to reach Graves at the summer camp in Clerendon, but he left before police arrived. Police got a warrant for Graves’ email account where they allegedly found more child sexual abuse material.
Graves was released Thursday on a $30,000 bond from the detention center in Beaufort.
If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual abuse, help can be found by calling Hopeful Horizons at 843-770-1070.
