Cary Man Faces Internet Child-Sex Charge in Asheville
Authorities charged Kim Sunsik Kelly after, they said, he drove to Asheville following a contact that turned out to be with an undercover sheriff's detective.
Posted — UpdatedKim Sunsik Kelly, 36, thought he was exchanging information over the Internet with a minor when he actually was in contact with an undercover Buncombe County investigator, authorities said.
They charged Kelly drove to Asheville in hopes of having a sexual encounter with a child. They arrested him Friday.
The Buncombe investigator with whom Kelly made contact is part of a statewide task force that tries to catch Internet violators, officials said.
Kelly's address was listed as 306 Rutherglen Drive.
Kelly was charge with a felony under a 1995 law called "solicitation of child by computer to commit an unlawful sex act," the Buncombe sheriff's office said. The statute says a person over 16 is guilty is of the crime if it's shown that he or she "entices, advises, coerces, orders, or commands" someone the violator believes is under 16 and at least three years younger than the violator.
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