FARMINGTON -- A Layton sex offender who admitted to additional sexual activity has been sentenced to probation.
Salvador Molinar Spinuzza Jr., 38, was sentenced Monday in 2nd District Court to serve three years' probation to run consecutively with his current probation sentence.
He is also sentenced to serve one year in Davis County Jail, with credit given for time already served.
A review hearing is set for June 14.
In January, Spinuzza pleaded guilty to first-degree felony attempted aggravated sexual assault of a child.
He has been in jail since Oct. 5 after admitting to Adult Probation and Parole about additional sexual activity with a child.
The current conviction carried a possible sentence of three years to life in Utah State Prison, but it is not a mandatory sentence, said Deputy Davis County Attorney Rick Westmoreland.
Spinuzza had admitted to the sexual activity as part of his sex offender therapy, Westmoreland said.
After pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree felony sexual abuse of a child, Spinuzza was sentenced in March 2007 to serve three years' probation.
Adult Probation and Parole officials are "concerned if this defendant is sentenced to prison it could have a chilling effect on those who are being honest as part of their therapy," Westmoreland said in the hearing.
"I've done a lot of changing," Spinuzza said.
"I disclosed because it was the right thing to do. My goal is not to hurt anyone anymore."
Both crimes took place around the same time.
Two children, members of the same family, are involved in each case.
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