An Orillia man charged with child luring in the past will spend another nine months behind bars after pleading guilty recently to several charges.
Shawn Harrington, 33, pleaded guilty in Barrie court last month to failing to attend court, theft under $5,000 relating to a shoplifting incident at a local department store as well as failing to comply with a probation order relating to national sex offender registry.
Harrington is currently in jail after pleading guilty in a Guelph courtroom earlier this year on a drug charge. The nine months will be added to that sentence when it ends later this year.
In late 2006, Harrington was sentenced on luring charges for communicating with under-aged boys on Facebook for the purpose of sexual contact. On those charges, he was sentenced to 256 days in jail, which were to be served after he completed his sentence for a previous child luring charge from 2015.
At that time, Justice George Beatty ordered a lifetime ban prohibiting Harrington from attending parks and other areas where youth congregate, along with compelling him to provide a DNA sample and appear on the national sex offender registry.
