PENDER COUNTY — A man being held at the Pender County Jail has received over a million-dollar bond after being charged with multiple sex-related criminal offenses according to the Pender County Sheriff’s Office.
Earlier in the month, the department’s special victims unit received information a Burgaw man, Nicholas Wayne Moore, 39, was in possession of multiple sexually graphic images involving minors, according to a public release.
Law enforcement executed search warrants at the man’s residence and found Moore had been discreetly recording females who used his bathroom between 2018 and 2022. “Detectives are still attempting to identify some of these female minors,” the release noted.
Hundreds more child pornographic images were confiscated, though not of children Moore was in contact with. One featured a 1-year-old being sexually assaulted.
On Aug. 22, the department noted Moore was being held under a $325,000 bond. However, as the investigation has evolved, officers “established the basis for additional charges against Moore for several other sexual offenses involving other victims.”
On Sept. 1, Moore was charged with:
- 3 counts of rape of a child adult offender
- 3 counts of first-degree rape of a child
- 4 counts of indecent liberties with a child
- 1 count of sexual battery.
His secured bond is now set at $1,500,000.
The sheriff’s office asks anyone with information pertinent to Nicholas Wayne Moore to contact Detectives-Sergeant Steve Clinard and Eric Short at 910-259-1437 or stephen.clinard@pendersheriff.com.
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