Sex offender jailed after travelling from Devon to Wiltshire to abuse girl
56 year old Jon Iacomino was intercepted by police
A registered sex offender, who travelled from Devon to Wiltshire with the intention of sexually abusing a young girl, has been jailed.
56 year old Jon Iacomino from Honiton, was intercepted last September, after communicating online to make plans to abuse a girl.
When he arrived in Wiltshire, he was met by officers from South West Regional Organised Crime Unit, where he was arrested, and has been remanded in custody since.
Iacomino pleaded guilty to:
- two counts of arranging or facilitating commission of a child sex offence
- three counts of making category A, B and C indecent images
- two counts of distributing category C indecent images
- one count of possessing extreme pornography
He's been sentenced at Swindon Crown Court on Friday (16th May) to a total of eight years and 10 months.
Five years and 10 months of that sentence will be served in prison with a three years on extended licence.
During the sentencing the Judge said Iacomino “represented a significant and ongoing risk of causing harm in the future by the commission of similar further offences”. He was deemed to need “careful supervision” which could only be done by the judge handing him an extended licence of three years.
Four further offences, two of making and two of distributing indecent images of a child, will lie on file.
Iacomino will be on the Sex Offender Register indefinitely and was handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
DI Dave Wells, who leads the SWROCU's Online Investigations Team, said: “Iacomino is clearly a dangerous sex offender who admitted his intentions to meet and sexually abuse a young girl. He is a risk to children in our communities and, through the making and sharing of indecent images, continued to cause harm to victims of sexual exploitation and abuse.
“Our team is part of a national network of officers working to identify people like Iacomino who are looking to abuse or exploit children. His arrest was part of this ongoing work.”