PENSACOLA, Fla. (WTXL) - Nicholas G. Peacock, 34, of Salisbury, North Carolina, was sentenced to 27 and a half years in prison Friday for enticement of a minor and interstate travel for illicit sexual activity.
In April 2016, the victim's grandmother reported that her 12-year-old granddaughter was missing and that she believed the child had met someone online and left with him.
When officers visited the grandmother's home, the child had returned.
The child said she traveled to North Carolina for the weekend with a white male named “Nick,” who was later identified as Peacock.
The grandmother later told officers that she found information on a laptop that she had allowed the victim to use that led her to believe the victim had been sexually active with Peacock.
In interviews with investigators, the victim said that she had been sexually active with Peacock over the weekend while they were in North Carolina, that she had met Peacock online via Skype, and that Peacock had drove her to North Carolina and then back to Florida after Peacock had found a missing person report.
In addition to telephone and hotel records, investigators reviewed thousands of Skype chats on the laptop from the time period of Dec. 2015 through April 2016, which revealed many sexually explicit conversations, images, and videos exchanged between the victim and Peacock.
Peacock pled guilty on July 17, 2017.
