Columbia man arrested on criminal solicitation of a minor charges

SC Attorney General’s Office

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– A Columbia man was arrested on seven sexual exploitation of a minor charges, said the Attorney General’s Office.

Justin Thomas Steadman is accused of soliciting and traveling to meet a person he believed to be a minor for sex, encouraged them to produce child sexual abuse material, and sent sexually explicit material to a person he believed to be a minor.

Steadman was arrested on Tuesday, February 27, by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators and the Lexington Police Department.

He is charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor, one count of attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor, three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, and two counts of dissemination of obscene material to a person under the age of eighteen.