Ronan Keogan (51) of Terenure pleaded guilty to a count of knowingly distributing and possessing child pornography
Detective Garda Stephen Byrne told Eoin Lawlor BL, prosecuting, at the Central Criminal Court that on March 27, 2017, a woman presented to Clontarf Garda Station. She told gardaí that the previous month she joined the Ashley Madison website, where people who want to have affairs can meet.
Det Garda Byrne agreed with defence counsel that the three images seem to have been taken by the girl herself, and only one of the images is considered “child pornography”. During the search, Keogan handed over his mobile phone and pin and was fully cooperative with gardaí. He was asked if he had sent images of a young girl to a woman, and he replied: “Was she in a bath? She is from Cork. She is 17 years old. That’s what she told me”.
The court heard that Keogan had 383 folders of images of women on his phone, resulting in over 10,000 images in total from women of all ages. Of these 10,000 images, three were of a child pornography nature. The garda agreed with counsel that he had the task of trawling through all of Keogan’s devices and that there was a much different man behind the scenes compared to the “outward persona” that he gave.
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