Sex Trafficking, Exploitation Of Children Lands Woman In Prison

ABERDEEN, MD — A 27-year-old Aberdeen woman has been sentenced for the sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of a child, as well as the distribution of child sex abuse material.

According to court documents, in January 2025 Ashley Graybeal started using her Kik account to contact other Kik users and offered to send them sexually explicit images of two minor victims, or to perform sex acts with the two children via livestream, in exchange for money.

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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, and law enforcement intervened and recovered the two children, court documents showed.

Graybeal pleaded guilty to the charges of sex trafficking a child, sexually exploiting a child and distribution child sexual abuse material in February 2026. She has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release.