The 26-year-old single male appeared before a sitting of Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court on Friday where he faced a total of 190 charges relating to various dates in 2015.
A young Wicklow man sexually exploited over 60 young children by posing as a teenage girl on Facebook and getting them to send him naked pictures of themselves, a court had heard.
He was also charged with 37 counts of the possession of child pornography and 11 counts of distributing child pornographic images contrary to other sections of the same legislation.Detective Garda Georgina Earley of the Garda National Protective Services Bureau told the court that gardaí were alerted about the offences by the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in October 2015.
The court heard the accused had persuaded three young siblings based in the UK, for photos of their genital areas. They included a young girl aged 10, whose photos he redistributed online. Det Garda Earley said he threatened another 13-year-old victim who had autism that he would tell his mother if he did not comply with his instructions.
Det Garda Earley told the court that the accused denied any knowledge of the Facebook accounts when he was arrested in 2017 and intimated one might belong to his brother. Cross-examined by counsel for the defendant, Shane Costello SC, Det Garda Earley agreed that the defendant was aged 17-18 at the time of the offences.
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