A 33-year-old Utah County man has been sentenced to prison for having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl.
Jeffrey Nicolas Nyman, of Payson, had pleaded guilty in 4th District Court to second-degree felony counts of kidnapping and sexual abuse of a child.
In November 2016, Nyman picked up the victim from her junior high school in Taylorsville and took her to a Utah County hotel room, where they had sex, according to charging documents.
The police were called that day after the girl’s parents could not find her and she hadn’t been at school. The girl’s classmate told police that she said she was skipping school that day to be with her 20-year-old boyfriend “and they were going to a hotel together for the day,” charging documents state.