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  • Winnsboro man charged with child pornography

    Pearson

    COLUMBIA – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Raymonte Terrial Pearson (age 19) of Winnsboro, S.C., on ten charges connected to the exploitation of a minor.  Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Attorney General’s Office made the arrest.  Investigators with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office, both also members of the state’s ICAC Task Force, assisted with the search and arrest.

    Investigators received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which led them to Pearson. Investigators state Pearson possessed multiple images of child pornography.

    Pearson was arrested on November 29, 2017. He is charged with ten counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree (§16-15-410), a felony offense punishable by up to ten years imprisonment on each count.

    The case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office.

     

  • Woman charged with strangling cat

    WINNSBORO – A Winnsboro woman was charged last week with ‘ill treatment of animals, torture’ for strangling a cat to death.

    Dexter

    Fairfield County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Kerri Anne Dexter, 39, on Nov. 25, after they were called by the woman’s relatives who told them that Dexter had been growing marijuana at her home on Rion Road and had strangled a cat to death, according to the incident report.

    Deputies said the relatives told them Dexter had buried the dead cat in the yard somewhere.

    The report stated that the relatives expressed concern for the children who lived at the residence because they said Dexter projected her anger on the animal to the point of killing it.

    One of the relatives told deputies that Dexter told him that she got angry with the cat for urinating on a bed and strangled it to the point that it died, the report stated.

    Dexter also reportedly told deputies that she grew marijuana that she used to self-medicate due to stress, but that her relatives had pulled the plants up and thrown them away.

    Deputies seized containers of marijuana seeds and paraphernalia.

    Fairfield Animal Control was called and came to the home, dug up and photographed the dead cat.

    Dexter was released on a $5,000 bond.

  • Father jailed for cruelty to child

    WINNSBORO – A 43-year-old Winnsboro man was arrested on Nov. 14 for both ‘cruelty to children (torture, deprivation)’ and ‘assault and battery’ 1st degree.

    A 38-year-old woman came to the Winnsboro police station on Nov. 6, stating that her ex-husband had stabbed their 16-year-old son in the leg, causing the child to have to have stitches in his leg.

    In an earlier report, the father told police that he has full custody of the couple’s son. There is no other stabbing information about the incident in the WDPS report.

    The father, who is not identified to protect the identity of the victim, was released on a $25,000 surety bond. The case continues to be investigated according to WDPS. This story will be updated as information is available.