Released by the Office of the Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor.
Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins states that James Nathan Owens, age 30, pled guilty on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 to Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor Second Degree.
The Honorable Edward Miller sentenced Owens to 18 years in the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
Evidence presented in the plea hearing by Assistant Solicitor Christy Kednocker Sustakovitch established that between June 2016 and June 2017, Owens sexually assaulted a young boy from Greenville County.
On June 27, 2018, police responded to the victim's residence after the child's mother made a phone call to police saying that her five-year-old son had disclosed he had been sexually assaulted by Owens.
The victim disclosed that this defendant had assaulted him on approximately seven occasions at the boy's home.
The child was interviewed at the Julie Valentine Center where he made a graphic disclosure of abuse.
The defendant initially denied that he had done anything to the victim, but eventually admitted that he sexually assaulted the child on several occasions.