PRESS RELEASE
January 23, 2015

FCSO Investigators Arrest Suspect in Sexual Exploitation Case

SUSPECT: Aaron John Daisy, age 37, of 3625 1/2 East Palmetto Street, Florence, SC 29505 was arrested by Florence County Sheriff’s Office Investigators on January 22, 2015 and charge with Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Second Degree (S.C. Code Section 16-15-405(A)). See FCSO Booking Website for additional details.

NARRATIVE: Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office assigned to the South Carolina Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) arrested Aaron John Daisy on January 22, 2015 and charged him with Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Second Degree. According to Investigators, Daisy is alleged to have been distributing, transporting, exhibiting, receiving, selling, purchasing, exchanging or soliciting materials that contain a visual representation of minors engaged in sexual activity or appearing in a state of sexually explicit nudity. Daisy was released from the Florence County Detention Center on January 22, 2015 on a $5000.00 personal recognizance bond. The case will be prosecuted by the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office.

Under South Carolina law, Sexual Exploitation of a Minor is a felony punishable by no less than two and no more than 10 years in prison.

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Major Michael M. Nunn
General Counsel/P.I.O.