Greenville man charged in iternet sex case

A Mercer County man has been arrested on charges of using the Internet to sexually proposition what he believed was a teenage girl, the state Attorney General's Office announced Wednesday.
John Lee Kearns, 29, of Greenville was arrested Friday on charges of unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a computer. Kearns was actually in contact with an undercover agent from the Attorney General's Child Predator Unit who was using the online profile of a 13-year-old girl.

Kearns is accused of sending the girl a naked photo and webcam video of himself and telling her he wanted to meet her for sex, the Attorney General's Office said.