Attorney General Alan Wilson announces repeat sex offender gets 20-year sentence

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – Attorney General Alan Wilson announces that an Anderson County jury found Kenny Swaney guilty on two counts of Sexually Exploitation of a Minor, 2^nd degree, and two counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, 3^rd degree, on August 7^th. Judge Lawton McIntosh sentenced Swaney to 20 years in prison.

In October 2022, Special Investigator Kevin Atkins with the Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was sent files of child sexual abuse material on two days back to back. After obtaining subscriber information, he was able to identify that the files had been sent from the residence of Kenny Swaney in Anderson County. He executed a search warrant at Swaney’s residence in December 2022, where ultimately Swaney admitted to being the person responsible for the child sexual abuse material files. Swaney had been previously prosecuted by this office for identical conduct in 2014 and was a registered sex offender from that conviction. Additionally, Swaney had also previously been convicted of a hands-on offense against a child.

Judge McIntosh sentenced Swaney to 10 years on all four charges, with one of the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, 3^rd Degree, charges to run consecutive to the other charges. The other charges will run concurrently with each other. The defendant was also on probation when he was arrested, and he was revoked in full to run concurrently with the sentences he received on the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor convictions.

Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Kyle Senn and Assistant Attorney General Stephen Ryan prosecuted the case for the state.