71 sex charges against one man

An Investigator with the Violent Crimes Unit, of
the Criminal Investigations Bureau with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, obtained additional
arrest warrants against a Seneca man in an ongoing Child Sexual Abuse Material
Investigation.
35 additional arrest warrants, for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor – 1
st Degree, were obtained
Wednesday against 30 year old Cory Donavan Simpson.  Simpson has been charged with a grand
total of 53 counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor – 1
st Degree and 18 counts of Sexual
Exploitation of a Minor – 2
nd Degree.
The 71 total charges against Simpson are the result of a continuing investigation that the Oconee
County Sheriff’s Office has been conducting in cooperation with the Anderson County Sheriff’s
Office and the Department of Homeland Security.
The investigation stemmed from Cybertips received in regard to the possession and distribution
of Child Sexual Abuse Material by Simpson. According to the sheriff’s office, evidence obtained during the investigation showed
that Simpson would receive images from victims. Simpson would then blackmail the victims to
provide additional images in order to sell those images that he received with others.
Further investigation indicates that allegedly Simpson knowingly coerced and encouraged minors to
transmit images of themselves in a state of sexually explicit nudity, or engaged in sexual activity,
with payment exchanged, in some instances, between Simpson and the minor for the images
produced.