CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined in on the questioning of the Charleston County Public Library on Wednesday, announcing that he sent a letter to the library regarding “sexually explicit and age-inappropriate material” in the children’s section.
Wilson’s letter, dated Feb. 4, sought to remind and clarify to the Charleston County Library Board that county libraries should “not offer any books or materials that appeal to the prurient interest of children under the age of seventeen in children’s, youth, or teen book sections of libraries and are only made available with explicit parental consent.”
“As both Attorney General and as a parent, I was deeply troubled by the reports of sexually explicit and age-inappropriate material in the children’s book section of these libraries,” Wilson said. “There is no responsibility more important than protecting our children.”