South Carolina Man Sentenced for Traveling to Minnesota to Meet 14-year-old

ST. CLOUD (WJON News) -- A South Carolina man who pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct charges after driving to St. Cloud to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex was sentenced earlier this week.

A Stearns County judge handed down a three-year stayed prison sentence to 23-year-old Nicholas Daniels of Boiling Springs, South Carolina. He gets credit for serving 245 days in the county jail and will be on supervised probation for 15 years.

Daniels has pleaded guilty to two counts of 3rd-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of describing sexual conduct to a child through electronic communications back in June.

The relationship came to light when a condom was found in the girl's room in June 2025. The girl told a staff member at the Child Advocacy Center in July about how the two met, how they communicated, and how he drove to Minnesota to meet her.

According to the criminal complaint, the girl met Daniels on Roblox in March or April 2025. Court records show they moved their conversation to Snapchat and talked multiple times per day until Daniels traveled to Minnesota in May of last year.

The victim said they had intercourse and performed other sex acts.

Court records show Daniels returned the following month and met three times, near a church, in a park, and at her home in north St. Cloud.

Authorities performed a forensic extraction on the girl's phone and allegedly found multiple conversations where Daniels sent nude photos of himself and described having sex with the victim.