Aynor man gets 15 years in 2006 child abduction case

An Aynor man will spend the next 15 years in a South Carolina prison for kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from a bus stop, then trying to rape her in a patch of Horry County woods.

Horry County Police charged 53-year-old Danny Ray Sarvis with second-degree assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct with a minor and kidnapping in the January 2006 crime.

Sarvis pleaded guilty to the charges Tuesday in Conway.

A circuit court judge sentenced Sarvis to 15 years in prison for the assault charge and 13 years on the kidnapping charge, but Sarvis will serve the terms concurrently.

Sarvis was convicted under the “Two Strikes” law, which means another conviction for crimes classified as “most serious” crimes will result in an automatic life sentence.

Sarvis must serve 85 percent of his sentence before he’ll be eligible for parole.

Prosecutors asked that Sarvis be required to register as a sex offender, added to the child abuser registry, and required to give state officials a DNA sample to be entered into the state’s DNA database, 15th Circuit Assistant Solicitor Sam Graves said.

The judge gave Sarvis credit for the time he’s served at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center where he’s been locked away since his arrest in 2006.

Sarvis will be moved to a South Carolina Department of Corrections facility in Columbia where he will be classified and assigned to a prison somewhere in the state.