DEC 06, 2022

Goose Creek Man Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material* Charges

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Edward A. Oquendo, 76, of Goose Creek, S.C., on two charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Goose Creek Police Department made the arrest. Investigators with the Attorney General's Office, also a member of the state's ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigation.

 

Investigators received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which led them to Oquendo.Investigators state Oquendo possessed and disseminated files of child sexual abuse material.

 

Oquendo was arrested on November 22, 2022. He is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a minor third degree (§16-15-410), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, and one count of dissemination of obscene material (§16-15-305).

 

 

This 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.

 

 

 

* Child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, is a more accurate reflection of the material involved in these heinous and abusive crimes. "Pornography" can imply the child was a consenting participant.  Globally, the term child pornography is being replaced by CSAM for this reason.

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