Mount Pleasant Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - June 25, 2019 - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Daniel Scott Pilecki (age 20) of  Mount Pleasant, SC, on 19 charges connected to the sexual exploitation of a minor.  Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Mount Pleasant Police Department made the arrest.  Investigators with  the Charleston County Sheriff's Office and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), both also members of the state's ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigation.

Investigators state Pilecki invaded the privacy of others without their knowledge or consent, and possessed multiple files of child pornography.  

Pilecki was arrested on June 24, 2019.  He is charged with nine counts of  being a peeping tom, (§16-17-470(A)), a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to three years imprisonment on each count; and 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree (§16-15-410), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count.

The case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office.

Attorney General Wilson stressed all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.