Aberdeen Woman Enters Plea In Child Sex Trafficking Case

ABERDEEN, MD — A 27-year-old Aberdeen woman has pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation charges after police say she attempted to traffic two children for sex and distributed child sexual abuse material.

According to the plea agreement, beginning in January 2025, Ashley Graybeal began using her Kik account to contact other Kik users. Graybeal offered other Kik users sexually explicit images of two minor victims, or to perform sex acts with the two children via livestream, in exchange for money.

Graybeal then sent sexually explicit images of the two children to other Kik users and received payment for those images through an online banking app. The images were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children through their Cybertipline in February 2025. Law enforcement intervened and recovered the two children, prosecutors said.

Graybeal has been charged with sex trafficking a child, sexually exploiting a child and distributing child sexual abuse material.

She faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum sentence of 30 years for sexual exploitation of a child, as well as up to a lifetime of supervised release and lifetime registration as a sex offender.