The state Attorney General’s Office charged Mallory Stout, 20, of Tamaqua, with possessing and sending child pornography.

The Attorney General’s Office began the investigation after receiving cyber tips about child sexual abuse materials and were able to trace them to Stout’s cellphone.

On April 21, agents met with Stout who admitted to seeing and searching for child sexual abuse material on social media. She told agents that she would “screen record” the material on her cellphone and send it to another person on Snapchat and other social media platforms.

Stout told agents that she saw and sent child sexual abuse material depicting children as young as 5, and that she was first exposed to child sexual abuse materials when she was about 9-years-old and communicating with adult men on social media.

Agents found that Stout had sent at least five videos of child sexual abuse material to another person on a chat application. At least five images of nude children engaged in indecent conduct were also found on her cellphone.

Stout was charged with five felony counts each of possession of child sexual abuse materials and dissemination of child sexual abuse material.

She was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge James Reiley and is free after posting $20,000 percentage bail.