Former Little League Coach Designated as a Sexual Predator and can have no contact with the victim or any minors

July 7, 2017

DeFuniak Springs, FL – A former Little League Coach will spend the next 40 years of his life behind bars for what was first reported as soliciting the parents through Facebook to have sex with their 10 year old child.

Bill Eddins, State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit, announced today that 27-yearold Jason Cody Hughes entered a plea of No Contest on Thursday, July 6, 2017 to three counts of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation of a victim less than 12 years of age, three counts of Promoting Sexual Performance of a Child, ten counts of Possession of Child Pornography, two counts of Using a Computer to Solicit a Parent to Consent to Sexual Conduct of a Child, one count of Transmission of Pornography, one count of Showing Obscene Material to a Child and one count of Domestic Battery Strangulation.

Hughes was immediately sentenced to 40 years in the Department of Corrections, 25 of which is a mandatory minimum which must be served day-for-day. Upon the completion of the 40 years, he will be on Sex Offender probation for the rest of his life and will be required to wear an electronic monitor. He was also designated as a Sexual Predator and can have no contact with the victim or any minors.

These charges arose in August of 2016 after the defendant contacted a mother via Facebook about paying money to her in exchange for sexual activity with her young daughter. Walton County Sheriff’s Office investigators began an undercover operation during which the defendant, while thinking he was chatting with another mother, offered money in exchange for sexual activity with a young child.

Investigators with both Walton County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Children and Families began interviewing children that the defendant had access to and one child disclosed that she had been molested multiple times by the defendant. The child also disclosed that the defendant had shown her images of child pornography.

Search warrants were executed on the defendant’s computer and images of child pornography were found as well as evidence of the other crimes he had committed. The defendant admitted that he was the one soliciting the moms for their children and that he had sent an image of child pornography to the undercover officer during the chat.

Little league Coach Arrested For Seeking Sex With 10 Year Old & Child porn

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