Man sentenced for trying to lure teen for sex in Abington

NORRISTOWN » A Philadelphia man was sentenced to time served in jail but will remain under court supervision for several more years with probation after he admitted that he tried to lure a juvenile to meet him for sex in Abington Township.

Geonattan Ismael Fabiani, 32, of the 5400 block of Montague Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 706 days already served to three years in prison on charges of attempted statutory sex assault and possessing child pornography in connection with incidents that occurred between May 2 and June 4 of 2020.

Judge Thomas C. Branca also ordered Fabiani to complete three years’ probation, consecutive to parole, meaning Fabiani will be under court supervision for a total of six years. Fabiani also will have to report his address to state police in order to comply with Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act.

The judge said Fabiani is prohibited from having unsupervised contact with minors and must comply with all recommendations for treatment or counseling after a psychosexual evaluation.

Other charges of attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, attempted indecent assault, distributing obscene or sexually related materials to a minor, corruption of a minor, unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a communication facility were dismissed against Fabiani in exchange for his guilty plea to the most serious charges.

The investigation began on May 2, 2020, when Abington police received information regarding an adult attempting to lure a 15-yearold male over the internet while using the social media app Instagram, according to the criminal complaint filed by Abington Township detectives Rick Beaghley and Jeff Anderson.

“This communication was sexual in nature and discovered by an adult family member,” Anderson and Beaghley, who also has been sworn as a special county detective for the purpose of investigating internet crimes against children, wrote in the arrest affidavit.

Detectives alleged the victim’s social media account specifically listed the boy’s age as “15 going on 16,” according to court papers. Detectives reviewed the messages in which Fabiani asked the boy for nude photographs and the pair did exchange multiple nude photographs, according to the arrest affidavit.

Fabiani pressed to meet the teenage boy for sex and asked the boy to meet him near Fabiani’s residence, detectives said.

Following the report to police, Abington detectives took control of the teenager’s Instagram account and began conversing with Fabiani while posing as the teenager, according to court papers. Over the course of several weeks, Fabiani continued to solicit sex during the conversations with the undercover detective and stated he wanted to meet the boy, according to the criminal complaint.

Detectives developed Fabiani as a suspect from images he sent to the juvenile.

Fabiani subsequently agreed to meet who he believed was the teenage boy at a location in the 200 block of Township Line Road in the Jenkintown section of Abington, according to court documents. Detectives moved in and arrested Fabiani at the meeting location.

When he was questioned by detectives, Fabiani admitted to using his Instagram account to communicate with whom he believed was a 15 year old boy, to sending nude images to the juvenile and to trying to meet the boy for sex, according to the criminal complaint.

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