Anderson Man Arrested on Criminal Solicitation of a Minor and Related Charges

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Robert Noah Rose, Jr., 52, of Iva, S.C., on two charges connected to the attempted sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Beaufort Police Department made the arrest. Investigators with the Mount Pleasant Police Department, also a member of the state's ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigation. 

Investigators state Rose solicited a person he believed to be a minor for sex and sent sexually explicit images to a person he believed to be a minor.

Rose was arrested on July 18, 2023. He is charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor (§16-15-342), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, and one count of attempted dissemination of obscene material to a person under age eighteen (§16-15-345), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.

Rose was still in custody from a prior arrest on related charges in 2022.

This case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office.

Attorney General Wilson stressed all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.

* Child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, is a more accurate reflection of the material involved in these heinous and abusive crimes. "Pornography" can imply the child was a consenting participant.  Globally, the term child pornography is being replaced by CSAM for this reason.