A Fort Mill teen remained in jail on Tuesday for allegedly manufacturing and possessing child porn and sending sexual images to minors, authorities said.
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Collin Patrick Taylor, 19, of Fort Mill, S.C., Michael Blake Millard, 20, of Rock Hill, S.C., and Jonathan Thomas Hall, 19, of Rock Hill, S.C., on 28 total charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors.
Investigators state Taylor manufactured and possessed files of child sexual abuse material and sent sexually explicit images to a minor.
Taylor, of Coronet Circle, was arrested on July 28. He is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, first degree, a felony offense punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment; five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree, a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count; and one count of disseminating obscene material to a person under age eighteen, a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years.
Hall was arrested on Aug. 1. He is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree, a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; and 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree, a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count.
Millard was arrested on Aug. 1. He is charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree, a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count.
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the York County Sheriff’s Office made the arrests in these unrelated cases. Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations, and the U.S. Secret Service, all also members of the state’s ICAC Task Force, assisted with these investigations.
Investigators received CyberTipline reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which led them to Taylor, Hall, and Millard. Investigators state Hall distributed and possessed files of child sexual abuse material, and Millard distributed files of child sexual abuse material.
All three of these cases 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.