Columbia man arrested on criminal solicitation of a minor

SC Attorney General’s Office

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– SC Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Christopher Thomas Rader on 8 charges connected to the attempted sexual exploitation of a minor.

Investigators state Rader solicited a person he believed to be a minor for sex, encouraged them to produce child sexual abuse material, possessed child sexual abuse material, and sent sexually explicit images to a person he believed to be a minor.

Rader was arrested on November 18.

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

Investigators with the Columbia Police Department, also a member of the state’s ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigation.