Former bank worker avoids jail for child pornography offences
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A former bank worker caught with thousands of sexually explicit images of children has been given a fully suspended sentence.
Robert Traynor (54) told gardaí that he believed the images were of adults posing as children, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.
Traynor, with an address in Crumlin, Dublin pleaded guilty to possession of 1,938 images and 183 videos of child pornography on February 2, 2018. He also admitted the production of 1,650 computer generated images on September 22, 2014, contrary to the 1998 child trafficking pornography act.
Sentencing him on Friday, Judge Pauline Codd said the offending material involved the “gross exploitation” of children, which she described as “abhorrent”.
A man who used fake Facebook accounts in the name of Love/Hate actors to induce a 14-year-old to share naked images of herself has been given a suspended four year sentence.
Mark Byrne (30) targeted an impressionable young teen with his “predatory behaviour” over a period of eight months when he pretended to be Killian Scott and Robert Sheehan six years ago, Judge Pauline Codd said today.
He made her believe she would get to meet the famous actors and perhaps get a role in the series when he persuaded and then pressured her into sending him a number of naked images of herself, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.
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A man who used fake Facebook accounts in the name of Love/Hate actors to induce a 14-year-old to share naked images of herself has been given a suspended four-year sentence.
Mark Byrne (30) targeted an impressionable young teen with his “predatory behaviour” over a period of eight months when he pretended to be
Love/Hate stars Killian Scott and Robert Sheehan six years ago, Judge Pauline Codd said.
Byrne made her believe she would get to meet the famous actors and perhaps get a role in the series when he persuaded and then pressured her into sending him a number of naked images of herself, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.