Ex-counselor sentenced for soliciting sex with child

A former marriage and family counselor was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison for soliciting a child to have sex with him and for possessing child pornography.

Ian Alexander Pincombe, 49, of Las Vegas was found guilty last year of one count of coercion and enticement, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography. He must register as a sex offender, according to the Department of Justice.

“The defendant sent sexually explicit messages to someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl, and he kept a collection of violent child pornography,” Nevada’s interim U.S. attorney, Dayle Elieson, said in a statement. “Children deserve to be protected from child predators.”

An undercover Henderson police detective found a Craigslist ad in which Pincombe sought sex with women, according to documents related to his May 2014 arrest. The detective, posing as a 13-year-old girl, exchanged sexually explicit emails and text messages with Pincombe, a criminal complaint stated.

Henderson police arrested Pincombe at a shopping center parking lot where he thought he was to meet with the teen girl, authorities said.

U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey presided over Pincombe’s trial and imposed his sentence. Oetomo was sitting, police said.

It wasn’t immediately clear why the bus left the road. The driver showed no signs of impairment, and speed does not appear to have been a factor, police said. County booking logs show no arrests have been made in connection with the crash.