A registered child molester, Jon Iacomino, the Honiton Paedophile, who journeyed from Devon to Wiltshire to sexually assault a young child has been incarcerated subsequent to an inquiry by the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU).
Jon Iacomino, 56, from Honiton, travelled last September after coordinating online to exploit a child. Upon his arrival in Wiltshire, he was apprehended by officials from SWROCU and has been detained in custody since.
Jon Iacomino was already included on the Sex Offenders’ Register.
He entered a guilty plea in March 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
Jon Iacomino was sentenced at Swindon Crown Court on Friday (16 May) to a total of eight years and 10 months, with five years 10 months in prison and three years on extended licence.
During the sentencing the Judge said Jon 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.
Jon 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: “Jon 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 Jon Iacomino who are looking to abuse or exploit children. His arrest was part of this ongoing work.”
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