Mum-Of-Three Discovers New Husband She Met On Facebook Is A Paedophile

A mum who discovered she was married to a paedophile said she was “sickened” he had been around her kids.

Horrified Mel Alford, 37, only found out her husband Jonathon’s sick past when he appeared in court to admit grooming an underage girl for sex. The mum-of-three from Exeter, Devon, said: “I carry a lot of guilt that I put my children in danger by having this man around them. I don’t think I will ever get over that.” Mel said she first met the man she knows as JR, in April 2012 through Facebook as she was friends with his older brother.

She said: “He kept sending nice message so I agreed to go on a date with him. We ended up getting engaged in August and brought the wedding forward to November that year when I found out my dad was dying from cancer. We were together most of the time and the start of our marriage was really good. He was great with my kids and treated me like a queen. I had no idea what he was really like until a social worker visited me and told me he was on bail for sleeping with an underage girl. That girl had come to my children’s dad’s house and told him and he contacted social services.”

Mel said that her husband denied it and pulled up what he said was that girl’s Facebook page which had a message to him saying ‘sorry I lied.’

She said: “It turns out he had set up a fake account to send that message. Myself and the kids believed him so we just carried on. But he became so jealous after we got married and I could not answer the door in case it was a man and he would sleep outside in his car if we had a row. In September 2013 I kicked him out. But I didn’t know the allegations were true until I saw he was in court.”

At Exeter Crown Court Jonathon Alford admitted six counts of sexual activity with a child, seven of making or possessing indecent images of children, three of having extreme pornography and one of perverting the course of justice.

Mel said: “I went along to the court and shouted and screamed on every plea. I heard all about his sickening crimes.

“It was so disturbing I don’t think it was really sinking in on the day. I walked into the middle of the court and called him a “dirty bastard”.

He smiled at me and I just wanted to kill him. He had been brought into my family and been around my kids. I was sickened.

“Still all I know is what I heard in court that day. I still don’t really know the full story.”

“I never saw him again after that. I wanted to go to his sentencing hearing but because I had kicked off at the previous hearing the police wouldn’t let me in.

“I have asked my kids if he ever tried it on with them and they have said no. But he should not have been allowed anywhere near me and my three children while he was on bail. “There should have been checks done.”

Mel is waiting for her final divorce papers to come through.

Source: Mirror