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Ex RTE groomer Kieran Creaven due to be released

  • 01-01-2019 10:36pm
    #1
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭


    The former RTE producer who was jailed after being caught trying to groom what he thought was a young girl is set to be released from his English prison cell next week. He is expected to return to Ireland and live in Co Galway.

    https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/shamed-former-tv-producer-jailed-15616777

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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  • #2
    RocketRaccoon
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    Can someone please explain why judges hand out sentences that never get carried out? Why is he free after half his sentence?


  • #3
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,464 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    No mention but I’d expect he will be required to be registered on the sex offenders register.


  • #4
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Please post the full address including eircode as I want to send him a "Welcome Home" card.


  • #5
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    Let's be honest here, he'll probably be back working in RTE this time next year.


  • #6
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    In case anyone forgets this absolute slime ball....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6HtIHM0Ss


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  • #7
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    _Brian wrote: »
    No mention but I’d expect he will be required to be registered on the sex offenders register.

    While the term Sex Offenders Register is commonly used in Ireland, there is in fact no such register and the term is not included in any section of the Sex Offenders Act 2001. The only information on the whereabouts of sex offenders in Ireland which is held centrally by the Gardaí is a certificate issued by the court in relation to those convicted by the court of sexual offenses.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/criminal_law/criminal_trial/sex_offenders_register.html

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #8
    DaverageJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭DaverageJoe


    I had heard about this guy before but didn't know much about him aside from the fact he was caught trying to meet a young girl.

    In looking him up though:
    Creaven, who the court heard was living in a “cyber world of pornography”, had two boxes of condoms, a list of female names and two phones on his person when he was arrested.

    The online conversation was described as “prolonged” by the prosecution; it began in July 2017 and ended in November 2017.

    He admitted he had made online contact with 15 to 20 teenage girls, aged between 13 and 18 years of age, blackmailing some of them by threatening to release information about them on Facebook.

    Kitty Colley, prosecuting, said: “He said he would talk to children online and at times buy credit for their phones so they could talk to him, but when they blocked him he would do something as revenge, such as put on Facebook that they had sent him naked photos.”

    Sounds like a right psycho.


  • #9
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    The Satanist wrote: »
    Please post the full address including eircode as I want to send him a "Welcome Home" card.

    He'll probably end up somewhere in Galway


  • #10
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    He'll probably end up somewhere in Galway

    I hear isolated ditches are nice this time of the year!


  • #11
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Can someone please explain why judges hand out sentences that never get carried out? Why is he free after half his sentence?

    Maybe he didn't try to diddle any kids while in prison so....good behaviour???


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  • #12
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    "And the details graphically outlined in court were horrendous. The last ten years spent watching online the most abusive images of children - some as young as eight, being tortured and raped."

    I feel sick reading this. This scumbag doesn't deserve to see the light of day.


  • #13
    keith_sixteen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭keith_sixteen


    I think I recall reading that there was a separate Garda investigation happening here in parallel to the trial / investigation in the UK. I am pretty sure he will be facing new charges here on his return?


  • #14
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    I'd say he won't last long, he'll get battered anywhere he goes.


  • #15
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,436 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Let's be honest here, he'll probably be back working in RTE this time next year.

    Are you being honest?


  • #16
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    keith_sixteen wrote: »
    I think I recall reading that there was a separate Garda investigation happening here in parallel to the trial / investigation in the UK. I am pretty sure he will be facing new charges here on his return?

    Hopefully he will. The Gardaí have his laptop/phone/etc so I'm sure there were images/videos found.


  • #17
    dk1982
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭dk1982


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Can someone please explain why judges hand out sentences that never get carried out? Why is he free after half his sentence?

    standard in the UK. For sentences under 2 years you get out after half the time served, the rest under license....

    For offences committed on or after 1 February 2015, those who are over 18 years who receive a determinate sentence of at least 2 days but less than 2 years will be released on licence half way through their sentence. They will be on licence until the end of their sentence, with an additional period of post-sentence supervision. This is to ensure that all prisoners for sentences under two years are supervised for a period of 12 months.

    https://www.prisonersfamilies.org/sentence/


  • #18
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Let's be honest here, he'll probably be back working in RTE this time next year.
    Is that why Bosco had a squeaky voice?


  • #19
    nim1bdeh38l2cw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭nim1bdeh38l2cw


    Edgware wrote: »
    Is that why Bosco had a squeaky voice?

    You'd have one too if someone stuck their hand up your ass.


  • #20
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    demanufactured wrote: »
    I'd say he won't last long, he'll get battered anywhere he goes.

    Has not happened to Larry Murphy so I don't think so.

    Unfortunately.


  • #21
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Has not happened to Larry Murphy so I don't think so.

    Unfortunately.

    Since the Gardaí keep tabs on where Larry, it's like he has police protection.


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  • #22
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    He has been released.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #23
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Gadgetman496 wrote: »
    He has been released.

    80Gj.gif


  • #24
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Omackeral wrote: »
    In case anyone forgets this absolute slime ball....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6HtIHM0Ss

    One type of scum catching another type of scum.


  • #25
    Sin City
    Registered Users Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Sin City


    God help the Irish kids
    should have left him to rot in the UK


  • #26
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    One type of scum catching another type of scum.

    That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. Pedophiles are far worse in my opinion. Far, far worse. It's another level entirely.


  • #27
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    He's a paedophile free to do as his pleases now. I'm sure he'll avoid befriending young girls on social media, but seeing as he was disgustingly viewing abusive material online for 10 years who's to stop him going on the dark web. :(


  • #28
    Sin City
    Registered Users Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Sin City


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    He's a paedophile free to do as his pleases now. I'm sure he'll avoid befriending young girls on social media, but seeing as he was disgustingly viewing abusive material online for 10 years who's to stop him going on the dark web. :(

    A condition for release should be he cannot have access to the internet but Id imagine that it would be unenforceable


  • #29
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    One type of scum catching another type of scum.

    Don't know why but I find them groups really odd. I mean they are doing society a great service but just to me seems like a peculiar thing to get involved in.


  • #30
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Don't know why but I find them groups really odd. I mean they are doing society a great service but just to me seems like a peculiar thing to get involved in.

    I'd say some of them suffered abuse before or know someone who had been abused.

    I commend them. If it wasn't for them then Kieran would still be living a nice life working for RTE whilst still watching disgusting abusive material and hounding young girls online.


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  • #31
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    The amount of these groups and the amount of paedos they nab just shows up how little is being done by the actual people supposed to be doing it, why can't police have lots if dedicated paedo hunters,not the odd group of police here n there, if a bunch of untrained people can do it what's stopping the police hiring non beat/public working staff to do this, the same level of law knowledge would not need to be trained, just online and privacy laws, in effect,anyone willing could do the job if they are any way tech and online savvy.


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