David James Allison, a 33-year-old from Bluffton, assaulted the victim approximately five times between September 2019 and December 2019, authorities say.
“These were unspeakably depraved acts against a victim that epitomizes vulnerability,” Assistant Solicitor Julie Kate Keeney said in a statement. “Through vigorous prosecution in both state and federal court, a predator has been removed from society.”
Keeney prosecuted Allison’s case in state court for the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
Just days before his trial in Beaufort County General Sessions Court, Allison pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and four charges of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor in July 2021. Federal prosecutors brought a parallel case against Allison in the U.S. District of South Carolina, where he was charged with producing child pornograp
