A 34-year-old Easton man has been indicted on eight federal counts tied to child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse material, with prosecutors alleging he uploaded more than two dozen illicit files to an online storage account. Charles Mark Wooters now faces charges that include one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of transportation of child sexual abuse material, one count of receipt of child sexual abuse material, and five counts of possession of child sexual abuse material.
The indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes, alongside FBI Baltimore Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul and Easton Police Chief Alan Lowrey, according to The Star Democrat. Federal prosecutors allege that in November 2025, Wooters uploaded more than two dozen files depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct to an online file-storage account. Investigators say they subsequently found child sexual abuse material on multiple electronic devices associated with Wooters, as well as in a cloud-storage account tied to his email address.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maryam Zhuravitsky is prosecuting the case, which the outlet reports was investigated jointly by the FBI and the Easton Police Department. The prosecution falls under Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative targeting child sexual exploitation and abuse, per the same report.
What the Charges Could Mean in Federal Court
The sexual exploitation charge alone carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and up to 30 years in federal prison, the outlet notes. The transportation and receipt charges each carry a mandatory minimum of five years and a maximum of 20 years, while each of the five possession counts carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years. Any eventual sentence would be determined by a federal judge after weighing federal sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors, the report states.
Federal data offers some broader context on how these cases typically resolve. According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the average guideline minimum for non-production child pornography offenders rose from 98 months in fiscal year 2005 to 136 months in fiscal year 2019, while the average actual sentence climbed more gradually, from 91 months to 103 months over the same period.
The indictment itself is not a finding of guilt, and Wooters is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, as the original report makes clear.
Prior Cases Already Pending in Talbot County
This is not Wooters' first brush with the legal system in Talbot County. A separate report from the same outlet describes him as facing three distinct criminal cases locally. The first, brought in January, holds 62 counts of possessing and accessing child pornography, while a second case filed in March contains one felony count of distribution of child pornography along with 17 additional possession counts.
A third local case alleges sexual abuse of a minor, second-degree child abuse and second-degree assault, the outlet reported. That same report noted Wooters was held without bond by a judge after previously being released on bond twice in connection with those earlier charges.
An account on X, ShoreUndercover, had earlier described Wooters' January arrest as stemming from an investigation by the ICAC Task Force, though that post reflects a social-media account's characterization rather than an independently verified court record.
