PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Nicholas G. Peacock, 34, of Salisbury,
North Carolina, was sentenced to 27.5 years in prison today in the U.S.
District Court in Pensacola for enticement of a minor and interstate travel for
illicit sexual activity. The sentence
was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Florida.
In April 2016, S.S. reported that her twelve-year-old
granddaughter was missing and that she believed the child had met someone
online and left with him. When law
enforcement visited S.S.’s residence, the child had returned home. The child said she traveled to North Carolina
for the weekend with a white male named “Nick,” who was later identified as
Peacock.
S.S. later told officers that she found information on a
laptop that she had allowed her granddaughter to use that led S.S. to believe
the child had been sexually active with Peacock. In interviews with investigators, the victim
disclosed 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 transported 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
December 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.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Escambia County
Sheriff’s Office, and other members of the North Florida Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Force. The case
was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David L. Goldberg.
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