By Jason Schwartz

A Boca Raton financial adviser who used his foreign-born wife’s fear of deportation to get away with molesting at least two young girls — including a 4-year-old –  has been declared a Sexual Predator, the Boca Raton Tribune has learned.

Mark David Hawkins, 52, was charged last September with multiple counts of sexual abuse.

As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped the “sex abuse” charge but had Hawkins plead guilty to “battery” and accept the designation as “Sexual Predator.” He spent one year in the County Jail and 10 months of probation with an ankle monitor.

The Florida Department of Children and Family Services investigated Hawkins for sexual assault on an 8-year-old girl in 2009. His wife, a 27-year-old Filipina he met online and brought to the U.S. to marry in 2007, saw the abuse happen, but went back and forth between confirming and denying it, records show.

She eventually told investigators that Hawkins, a vice president of investment with Wells Fargo, made a 4-year-old girl perform a sex act on him. He had “disgusting” photos and videos of men sexually abusing children on his computer, according to official records.

And, she said, the 2009 alleged sexual abuse actually did happen — something he later discussed during a controlled call with investigators.

Hawkins, who formerly served as president of the Boca Raton Pilots Association, met his wife on a website American men use to find Filipinas. In 2007, he proposed to her and brought her to the U.S. on a “fiance visa,” the report said.

Two months later, he married her. Records show it was his fourth marriage and her first.

A week after reporting the allegations against her husband, records show, Hawkins’ wife filed for divorce. The case is still open.

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies say that they received information that Hawkins had a blog on his computer about molesting young girls.

Investigators say that Hawkins had children stay at his home who they allege were molested by him.

Deputies say that one of the victims was four-years-old at the time of the alleged abuse.