A Rincon man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he solicited a 14-year-old girl for sex.

Lamar Beaupre, 25, had been conversing online with the middle-school student after meeting her on Facebook, according to the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office.

"The conversations started turning sexual in nature," said ECSO spokesman Detective David Ehsanipoor.

Investigators obtained the logs of several chats between Beaupre and the minor, Ehsanipoor said. Their investigation also turned up nude photos they determined Beaupre sent to the teenager from his cell phone.

Beaupre went as far, Ehsanipoor said, as to approach the 14-year-old in a store one day after the girl mentioned to Beaupre she was going to be there.

"At one point, she was actually at a store with her mother, and he attempted to grope her," Ehsanipoor said. "He saw her in one of the aisles, and he made sexual advances toward her. The mom found out afterward."

Although detectives sometimes pose as minors to nab sexual predators, the ECSO pointed out that this was a case of an adult actually befriending and enticing a child.

"This was an actual child. He found a 14-year-old," Ehsanipoor said. "We do know that (Beaupre) met her on Facebook, and we found that he has a lotof underage children as his Facebook friends."

Deputies arrested Beaupre at his Rincon home Tuesday afternoon. Beaupre was charged with enticing a minor for indecent purposes, distribution of material depicting sexual conduct, and computer and electronic pornography and child exploitation.

The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office is a member of the Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. The task force is made up of numerous agencies throughout the state, to catch people who use the internet or other wireless devices to prey on children.

"There are predators who spend all day on the Internet seeking children to entice for sexual or other indecent purposes," said Effingham County Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie.

Since June 1, investigators working in conjunction with the ICAC Task Force have identified and arrested six offenders in and around the Effingham County area, as well as assisted several other Georgia counties in identifying offenders in their areas.

ICAC Task Force investigators work closely with state and federal agencies to push for child predators to receive the maximum sentences for their crimes, according to the ECSO.

Another mission of the ICAC Task Force is educating the community not only on the dangers of internet predators, but also the importance of preserving personal information and knowing boundaries of social networking sites.

"We encourage parents to have access to their children’s Facebook accounts and their cell phones, to know what they’re doing and who they’re talking to," McDuffie said.