Palmetto State News

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Terry Lee Burgess II, 41, of Chester, S.C., on two charges connected to the attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the West Columbia Police Department made the arrest. 

 Investigators state Burgess solicited a person he believed to be a minor for sex, and sent sexually explicit images to a person he believed to be a minor.

 Burgess was arrested on May 17, 2023. He is charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor (§16-15-342), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; one count of attempted dissemination of obscene material to a person under age eighteen (§16-15-345), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.

 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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