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Repeat offender arrested again on child sex crime charges

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Woodruff Police Department

A repeat offender from the Upstate is again facing child sex crime charges. The Woodruff Police Department says 38 year old, Joshua Alan Payne is charged with 1st degree criminal sexual conduct with a child under the age of 11.

Investigators say the parent of a victim reported the sexual abuse over the weekend. Payne has a history of sex crimes against children. He was convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in 2017.


However, Payne avoided jail time and was sentenced to five years of probation. Payne was arrested in 2011 on charges of criminal solicitation of a minor and sending obscene material to a minor.

Arrest warrants from that case say Payne used the internet to solicit sex from what he believed was a 12 year old girl.