(WPXI) – A convicted sex offender was arrested after he allegedly tried to take a 13-year-old girl he’d been messaging on social media out of Connellsville Area Middle School on Wednesday. Jason Meals, 32, drove three hours from his home in Erie, Pennsylvania, to pick up the victim from school. According to the criminal complaint, Meals identified himself as the victim’s uncle and said he was there to take her to a doctor’s appointment. The complaint says that Meals stated the victim told him that she did not have anyone to take her to the appointment and her parents were OK with him doing so. The victim and her sister told school officials they did not know who he was, according to the complaint. Meals also said that he never spoke with the victim’s parents or anyone at the school to confirm. The criminal complaint says that during a police interview, Meals admitted that he had been talking to the victim on Snapchat for a few days and that he knew she was 13. He claimed she knew he was 32 years old.