18 Months for 15,000 Child Porn Images.

TequilaMockingBird

Gary Smith, Pearse Road Sligo was sentenced to 3 years for possession of child porn images, this was reduced to 18 months on appeal.

18 months. Jesus.


Link from the Sligo Champion:
http://www.sligochampion.ie/news/three-year-jail-term-cut-in-child-porn-images-case-1526236.html

darealtulip

Shocking!! what is that in this country?? rape and abuse and child porn are really softly punnished but importers from cannabis go to jail voor 15 years??? unreal. I always thought that rape and child porn were the biggest crimes you could commit!! how do they justify this?

Big_Mac

Typical. I'm not suprised tbh. Its feckin typical of this country. Real crimes don't bother getting punished, but lets go and consume the courts time and the Garda Siochana's time with little stupid crimes that don;t mean anything

Priorities priorities eh?:rolleyes:

DemocAnarchis

darealtulip wrote: »

Shocking!! what is that in this country?? rape and abuse and child porn are really softly punnished but importers from cannabis go to jail voor 15 years??? unreal. I always thought that rape and child porn were the biggest crimes you could commit!! how do they justify this?

Murder?

abouttobebanned

Did he actually hurt any children? Did he take any of these pics?

brianthebard

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Did he actually hurt any children? Did he take any of these pics?

That's hardly an argument for leniency, consuming these images provides a market for them, so someone abuses kids to make them. So either way he's responsible.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I think it depends on how 'bad' the images are. The story refers to him having 25 "child-in-bondage" pics, but 14,000 odd "girls undressing". Had that been the other way round, he's have gotten more. It also depends on whether or not he was creating/selling/passing them on to a third party.

That said, the maximum sentence is only five years...???

bumbletumble

There is no excuse for people having images like these!!! It seems a slap on the wrist and their computer taken off them is the height of the "justice" given out these days!

muffler

Castration would be too good for him.

bumbletumble

i agree...and not chemical castration but the real thing

darealtulip

rusty knive springs to mind

TequilaMockingBird

DemocAnarchis wrote: »

Murder?

Some of the children used may have rathered they were.

DenMan

I am sure somebody will have "a word with him". That is not the kind of person we want to have on our streets. What I can't understand is what sick fcuk would put a video of a girl aged 4 up online in the first place? Apalling.

Big_Mac

Hopefully someone in Prison will meet up with him and dole out some rough justice

magnumlady

The man has no remorse either, he was strolling around the village with his head held high, it sickens me.