(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Kevin Jamal Jones, 46, of Easley, S.C., on seven charges connected to the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office made the arrest. Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), both also members of the state’s ICAC Task Force, assisted with this investigation.
Investigators received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which led them to Jones. Investigators state Jones engaged in criminal sexual conduct with a minor, as well as produced sexually explicit images of a minor.
Jones was arrested on October 8, 2021. He is charged with one count of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, first degree (§16-3-655(A)(1)) a felony punishable by a minimum of 25 years; and six 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.