An Irish man has been extradited to the US where he is to face charges of being the world’s biggest facilitator of child pornography. A garda spokesman said Eric Eoin Marques was surrendered to FBI Agents at Dublin Airport and would appear in court in the US on Monday. Marques, who is in his early 30s, had been resisting his extradition and fought a long legal battle which ended in the Supreme Court this week. He is wanted by US authorities to face charges relating to conspiring to distribute and advertise child pornography, and advertising and distributing child pornography. Marques had offered shortly after his 2013 arrest to plead guilty to the charges he is facing if prosecuted in Ireland.

Source: The Irish Times March 23, 2019 14:03 UTC