A Missouri man has been jailed for a decade after he admitted to trying to hire a hitman to murder a boy he’s accused of molesting in a bid to cover up the alleged abuse.

Jon Mark Wilson, 58, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison last week after paying an undercover agent $2,000 to murder his alleged victim, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

Wilson had already been charged with two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy in Pettis County when he started trying to solicit a hitman for the murder plot in 2019, federal prosecutors said.

Investigators planned for an undercover agent to meet with Wilson in Kansas in January 2019 after they were tipped off by the source he’d initially asked to arrange the murder-for-hire.

Wilson told the agent that he also wanted the victim’s mother killed — but he didn’t have enough for both.

He said he hoped the victim’s mother would be so distraught over her son’s death that she would just kill herself, the feds said.

“It’s the only choice I got,” he told the agent, according to court documents.

Wilson handed over $2,000 in cash to the agent and a photo of the boy he allegedly had abused.

He also purchased 25 shotgun shells for the agent to use in the murder.

Wilson was arrested by a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper when he drove back over the state border after the meeting.

He pleaded guilty last September to one count of the use of interstate facilities in the commission of murder for hire.

The sodomy case against Wilson is still pending.