Charles Mark McCormack, Producing Child Pornography, Alabama 1998

A former kindergarten teacher from Alabama has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for producing child pornography, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.

Charles Mark 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.

According to admissions made in connection with his guilty plea, 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. Trial Attorney William M. Grady of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Chinelo Dike-Minor are prosecuting the case.

This 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 authorities. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

Mandatory facts: Defendant/Respondent: Charles Mark McCormack, Exact criminal charges: Production of child pornography, City and state: Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Exact date: Between August 1, 1997, and October 15, 1998, Sentence or outcome: 10 years in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/former-alabama-kindergarten-teacher-sentenced-prison-producing-child-pornography