Dillon, SC Mayor-Elect Indicted On Multiple Child Sex Charges
The mayor-elect of Dillon, South Carolina has been arrested on eleven counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
Actually, ten minors – ranging in age from 15-17 at the time the offenses in question allegedly took place.
Corey Jackson was supposed to take office later this month after he defeated Tally McColl in an April 16 runoff election to determine who would lead this town of roughly 6,500 people just south of the North Carolina border.
Those plans are now in disarray …
Late last month, it was revealed Jackson was the subject of an investigation led by the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) – news exclusively reported by Tonya Brown of WPDE TV 15 (ABC – Florence/ Myrtle Beach, S.C.).
This week, Brown got the scoop again in breaking the news of Jackson’s arrest.
According to probable cause affidavits accompanying the eleven warrants for Jackson’s arrest, the incoming mayor used a photo-sharing app on his phone to solicit nude images from at least ten underage males – offering and in some cases paying them cash for these illicit images.
Some of the warrants address exploitation that allegedly took place as recently as two weeks ago.
To wit: On April 24 of this year, Jackson allegedly solicited an unnamed 17-year-old male using the SnapChat app – asking the alleged victim to “send (him) a sexually explicit nude photograph in exchange for money.”
Jackson sent the unnamed victim “sexually explicit nude female photographs and encouraged (him) by offering him $100 in exchange for a photograph of his penis,” according to the affidavit.
Numerous other probable cause affidavits relate similar allegations, an alleged pattern of behavior that dates back nearly two years.
One affidavit accuses Jackson of offering another victim $300 for a photograph of his penis – a transaction with was allegedly completed last fall (although the alleged victim wound up sending him “a photograph of a nude penis he obtained from the internet”).
In another alleged incident said to have occurred last spring, Jackson is accused of offering another victim $500 for a photograph of his penis. Once again, the alleged victim ended up sending him “a photograph of a nude penis he obtained from the internet” instead. That transaction was also completed, authorities say.
In yet another alleged incident – said to have occurred last July – Jackson reportedly offered $1,000 for a similar photograph, although the alleged victim (who was 16 years old at the time) declined to provide one.
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