North Carolina Man Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material* and Related Charges

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Deontey Raekwon Reese-Cherry, 19, of Archdale, N.C., on eight charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff's Office made the arrest. 

Investigators state Reese-Cherry engaged in criminal sexual conduct with a minor and produced multiple files of child sexual abuse material.

Reese-Cherry was arrested on March 15, 2022.  He is charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, second degree (§16-3-655(B)(1)); and five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, first degree (§16-15-395), a felony offense punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment on each count.

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.