Palmetto State News

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Lewis Sterling Eskew Sr., 42, of Pelzer, S.C., on 10 charges connected to the sexual exploitation of a minor. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Greenville County Sheriff's Office made the arrest. 

 Investigators state Eskew solicited a minor for sex, produced and possessed child sexual abuse material, recorded minors without their consent, and engaged in sexual activity with animals. 

 Eskew was arrested on May 19, 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; three 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; one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree (§16-15-410), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; three counts of voyeurism (§16-17-0470(B)), a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to three years imprisonment for a first offense on each count; and two counts of buggery (§16-15-0120), a felony offense punishable by five 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.

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