A man who raped and sexually abused a Leicestershire schoolboy almost 20 years ago has been jailed for 10 years.
Geraldo Tucciarone (51), who was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court on Friday, indecently touched a 10-year-old boy while visiting Hinckley in the early 1990s.
Six months later, Tucciarone turned his attentions towards the boy again, and raped him.
Riel Karmy-Jones, prosecuting, said that before the rape, Tucciarone showed the boy indecent video images.
The boy had been unaware that Tucciarone had done anything wrong when he was sexually touched by him. By the time the rape took place, the boy realised it was wrong, but had been too embarrassed and ashamed to tell anyone at the time, Miss Karmy-Jones said.
The court heard Tucciarone, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, earlier sexually abused and later raped a 10-year-old girl in Suffolk.
He pleaded guilty to two offences of sexual assault and two offences of rape. The offences took place in the early to mid-1990s. He was arrested in January this year.
Defending, Andrew Shaw said Tucciarone had no previous convictions and had fully admitted what he had done. Tucciarone had asked for no mitigation to be put forward on his behalf.
Jailing him for a total of 10 years, Judge John Holt told Tucciarone the 44 days he has already spent in custody awaiting sentencing would be deducted from the time he has to serve.
He was also banned indefinitely from having any unsupervised contact with under-16s and was ordered to sign the sexual offences register until further notice.
