South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of David Eugene Wilder, 48, of Locust, N.C., on 10 total charges connected to the attempted sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Mount Pleasant Police Department and Charleston Police Department made the arrests on two sets of charges. Investigators with the U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations, both also members of the state's ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigations.
Investigators from both departments state Wilder solicited people he believed to be minors for sex and encouraged them to produce child sexual abuse material*. Investigators from the Mount Pleasant Police Department state Wilder sent sexually explicit images to a person he believed to be a minor.
Wilder was arrested on May 14, 2024. He is charged with seven total counts of criminal solicitation of a minor (§16-15-342), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count; two total counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, first degree (§16-15-395), a felony offense punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment on each count; and one count of attempted dissemination of obscene material to a person under age eighteen (§16-15-345), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.
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.
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