More charges for registered sex offender who tried luring child into his SC home
A South Carolina man who is a registered sex offender was arrested Sept. 4 for exposing himself to a child that he tried to lure into his Midlands home, according to the Newberry County Sheriff’s Office.
Charles Robert Norman Jr., a 41-year-old Prosperity resident, was charged with indecent exposure in addition to luring or enticing a child, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
Since his arrest, Norman has been charged with seven more crimes, jail records show. He was also charged with a sex offender registry violation (failure to register) in addition to six counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to jail records.
Information about when the incident happened was not available, but it occurred near Norman’s Sun Rise Lane home, according to the release from the sheriff’s office. That’s near the part of Lake Murray that connects with the Saluda River.
Norman was taken into custody last Thursday morning and booked into the Newberry County Detention Center, the sheriff’s office said.
Bond was set at $81,000 on the combined charges, and Norman remains locked up, according to jail records.
“There is no place in any community for this nonsense to take place,” Sheriff Lee Foster said in the release.
The sheriff urged residents to regularly check the either his department’s sex offender registry page, or the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division database on registered sex offenders, to find out if anyone on the list lives nearby.
In May 2018, Norman was arrested on an indecent exposure charge, and was found guilty of the count following a trial in June 2019, Newberry County court records show.
Norman was arrested again for indecent exposure in August 2022, and this time pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2023, according to court records.
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This story was originally published September 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM.
