Court documents allege that Jones found girls from Greene and Miami counties to have sex with all while he was engaged to and living with a woman in Anna. A criminal complaint written by Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent Andrea Kinzig wrote that Jones was a registered sex offender when the alleged crimes took place.
Jones not on offender registry
But because Jones’ conviction was from Illinois in 2003 (when he was 15), his name did not appear on the Miami County or Shelby County sex offender registries when he lived in those counties.
“Different states do different things as far as juvenile convictions go,” said Miami County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Mike Marion. “Not all juveniles are required to register. A lot of that is subject to the discretion of the convicting judge.”
Marion said, for example, that his county has 162 registered sex offenders but that 11 of them don’t show up on the sheriff’s web-based list.
“The juveniles who do have to register are not subject to public notification.,” he said, adding that if residents request information in person, however, all public records can be shared.
FBI identifies ‘billypedo’
Agents investigating an unnamed child pornography website allege that a user named “billypedo” was Jones. A search warrant was executed and several electronic devices were seized from an address in Anna, where Jones lived with his fiance, her daughter and their infant son.
A thumb drive included more than 2,300 child pornographic images, according to Kinzig. It also included a file that said Jones was born “Willam Robert Johnson in Amarillo, Texas.”
The complaint stated that Jones used the online dating application Badoo to meet a Bellefontaine girl who he initially thought was 20 years old but actually was 16. Jones was arrested on a delinquency of a minor charge.
Local girls involved
The complaint also details “Minor Female B” from Greene County and “Minor Female C” from Miami County. Both were 15 years old. The girl from Greene County said she met Jones through the Skout social media site and communicated via the Kik messenger system.
Jones and Minor Female B had sex and the minor invited Minor Female C to join them at a hotel where alcohol was given to the girls, the complaint states. The complaint detailed explicit text messages about what Jones had in mind, how he asked for naked pictures of the girls and that he planned to start a website showing underage girls.
“While Minor Female C knew that it was not a good idea to have a relationship with Jones, she did so because he was polite, took her places, bought her things and drove,” Kinzig wrote. “Minor Female C advised that her family was poor, and she was enticed by the things he bought her.”
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