Locations
Honiton, East Devon, EX14
Description
A registered sex offender who travelled from Devon to Wiltshire to sexually abuse a young girl has been jailed following an investigation by the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU).
Jon Iacomino, 56, from Honiton, made the journey last September, after communicating online to make plans to abuse a girl. When he arrived in Wiltshire, he was met by officers from SWROCU, arrested, and has been remanded in custody since.
Iacomino was already on the Sex Offenders’ Register.
He pleaded guilty 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
He 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 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.