Aiken Man Charged with Possessing Child Pornography on Cell Phone

Ian Wright

Date: June 16, 2021

An Aiken man was arrested Tuesday after multiple files of child pornography were found on his cell phone, including a video of a nude girl bound to a chair with rope.

Ian Michael Gerard Wright, 27, was charged with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office received information from the S.C. Attorney General’s Office on June 9 in reference to a possible child pornography case with Wright.

Arrest warrants say that Wright possessed material showing minors engaging in sexual activity in files on his Google Pixel cell phone, located at his home on the 400 block of Lybrand Street in Aiken.

Greg Rickabaugh is the Jail Report Contributor for The Augusta Press. Reach him at greg.rickabaugh@theaugustapress.com.

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Greg Rickabaugh is an award-winning crime reporter in the Augusta-Aiken area with experience writing for The Augusta Chronicle and serving as publisher of The Jail Report. He also owns AugustaCrime.com. Rickabaugh is a 1994 graduate of the University of South Carolina and has appeared on several crime documentaries on the Investigation Discovery channel. He is married with two daughters.

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