South Carolina agency gave child to 'monster,' according to lawsuit

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT A South Carolina state agency that's supposed to protect vulnerable children left a teenage girl 'in the hands of a monster,' according to a lawsuit. Gregg Martin, a suspected predator facing over a dozen sex crime charges since 2022, allegedly groomed his victim, pumped her full of drugs and mentally and physically abused her for six weeks, the lawsuit says.

Fox News Digital sent South Carolina's Department of Social Services a list of questions, but a spokesperson declined to comment. 'DSS does not comment on pending litigation or cases involved in litigation,' a spokesperson said in an email. Martin, 56, was arrested by the Richland County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina as recently as March on warrants for alleged sex crimes against a minor in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

The Peach State criminal charges include use of computer services to seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child to commit illegal acts; electronically furnishing obscene material to minors and obscene internet contact with a child. That brings the total of criminal charges to 14 in South Carolina, most of which stem from the alleged abuse of the teenager in his care in 2022, plus at least three in Georgia, according to court records.

All the legal actions against two groups and four doctors were filed in South Carolina as recently as May 15 and reviewed by Fox News Digital. Robert said a fourth lawsuit is in the works but hasn't been filed yet. The language and allegations are similar in each lawsuit, and the victims are young girls and boys.

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