Charles Mark McCormack, Child Pornography Production, Alabama 1997

Grimy Times Exclusive: Former kindergarten teacher Charles Mark McCormack has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for producing child pornography between 1997 and 1998 in Alabama.

According to court documents, McCormack, 54, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, pleaded guilty on November 27, 2017, to one count of production of child pornography before Chief U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre of the Northern District of Alabama.

Between August 1, 1997, and October 15, 1998, McCormack used an approximately six-year-old girl to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of the conduct, by videotaping the girl urinating in a bathroom in his Colbert County, Alabama residence.

During a May 2016 search of McCormack’s residence, law enforcement discovered images of nude and topless females believed to constitute child pornography and a suitcase containing young girls’ panties. McCormack was employed as a kindergarten teacher at the time of the search.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations is investigating this case with support from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

McCormack’s 10-year prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. The investigation is a part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the federal government.

The case was prosecuted by Trial Attorney William M. Grady of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Chinelo Dike-Minor of the Northern District of Alabama.

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