A man who sexually exploited a 12-year-old child online by masquerading as a 17-year-old girl has been jailed for one year. Kevin Conway was also caught with over 400 child pornography images and 12 videos by gardaí­ when they searched his flat. The images were in the most serious category of child pornography, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Tuesday. When his home was searched by gardaí­, Conway told them: “There’s sick stuff on my phone”. He also pleaded guilty to one count of sexually exploiting a child, one count of producing child pornography and one count of distributing it in June and July 2013.

Source: The Irish Times October 06, 2020 16:18 UTC