A local man once employed as a cyber operations with the U.S. Army was charged this week with possessing child porn on his home computer in Graniteville.
Sean Cushman, 29, of Fioli Circle, Graniteville, was charged Tuesday with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor in the third degree.
According to authorities, Aiken County officers got a CyberTip report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in reference to child sexual abuse material. Armed with a warrant, officers went to Cushman’s home on Tuesday and found CSAM images and a video on his computer.
Some of the images include still shots from a video showing young boys ages 11 to 13 exposing themselves. Another had a boy age 7 to 9 doing the same thing. Other images show a girl of the same age range nude and exposing herself. A video was also found of an unknown person touching a young boy’s genitalia.
A Facebook page for Cushman identified him as a Cyber Operations Officer at U.S. Army who is originally from Battle Creek, Michigan. The page has not been updated since 2019.
Cushman was locked up Tuesday but later released on a $15,000 bond.
The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in this case by the S.C. Attorney General’s Office, S.C. Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon, which all have investigators assigned to the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, and the Burnettown Police Department.
The case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office.
