A 20-year-old Tamaqua woman is facing criminal charges on possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to court records.
The state attorney general’s office on Tuesday charged Mallory Stout with CSAM, after investigators found explicit materials of minors in her possession on her cellphone and social media apps dating back to October 2025.
Stout faces five felony counts of CSAM, five counts of disseminating photo/film of CSAM and an additional count of criminal use of a communications facility.
According to court documents filed by agent Brian King, who charged the defendant, he began investigating an IP address, a cellphone number and other information traced to a Tamaqua address in February. He also reviewed a series of CyberTips through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and found that an Instagram account associated with the defendant had received CSAM in 2022 and 2023.
On Tuesday, agents executed a search warrant at Stout’s home in Tamaqua and interrogated her. She admitted to seeing and searching for CSAM on social media, and said she would screen-record it and send it to another person via Snapchat and other social media platforms, according to the affidavit.
She told the agents that she had sent the materials as recently as a month ago and that they involved victims as young as 5 years old.
She said she was first exposed to CSAM when she was 9, while communicating with adult men on social media.
Through a forensic review of her cellphones, agents found that Stout had sent at least five videos of CSAM to an individual on the messaging app Telegram.
Stout was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge James K. Reiley on Tuesday and jailed in Schuylkill County Prison. She was released after posting 10% of $20,000 bail, according to court records.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 28 before District Judge Stephen J. Bayer in Tamaqua.