A FORMER childcare worker was jailed for nine months for distributing vile child abuse images including a video involving the abuse of a small baby.
Cork District Court heard that gardaí were alerted to the offensive images forwarded by grandmother and mother-of-four Evelyn Ajie (51) by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and IT giants Google.
Ajie - of Clifton Terrace, Summerhill North Cork and formerly from Nigeria - received the images as part of a WhatsApp group with members across Europe and Africa including Italy, Spain and Nigeria.
She pleaded guilty to three charges before Judge Olann Kelleher at Cork District Court.