Man (42) jailed for sexual exploitation of 14-year-old with special needs Judge says actions were ‘utterly exploitative and cruel’ and man could hardly have found ‘a more vulnerable victim’
Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 16:47 Updated: Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 16:57
On Wednesday at Clonmel Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Garavan said that he believed a sentence of seven months was appropriate.
A 42-year-old man has been jailed for seven months after he admitted sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl with special needs when he persuaded her to send him intimate photographs of herself after engaging with her online.
Michael O’Regan of Assumption Place, Clonakilty, Co Cork, pleaded guilty at Clonmel Circuit Criminal Court to the exploitation of the child on a date between December 25th, 2016 and April 25th, 2017, contrary to Section 3 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998.
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Council recruits international experts to advise on ghost ship off Cork coast Abandoned MV Alta drifted across Atlantic and washed up in Ballyandreane a year ago
Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 13:52
The abandoned cargo ship MV Alta stuck on rocks near the village of Ballycotton southeast of Cork. File photograph: Cathal Noonan/AFP via Getty
Cork County Council has recruited international experts to advise on what steps it should take to deal with the grounded ‘ghost ship’, MV Alta which washed up on the coast near Ballycotton a year ago today.
The 77m freighter drifted across the Atlantic after the US Coast Guard rescued her crew of 10, who had been en route from Greece to Haiti, some 2,000km southeast of Bermuda in October 2018. She finally came to rest when washed on to rocks at Ballyandreane in east Cork by Storm Denis.
Plumber who lost plot jailed for assault after parking place row Assailant struck victim with poker, threatened to destroy house and car during quarrel
Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 21:05
A 46-year-old plumber has been jailed for three years for striking another man with a poker and threatening to destroy his house and car during a row over a parking space.
Gavin Craven from Glenfield Avenue, Ballyvolane, Co Cork, also claimed to be a member of the IRA during the incident.
He pleaded guilty on Monday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to a man at Liffey Park, Mayfield, in early August 2020, contrary to section three of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997.