A CONVICTED sex offender who hoarded over 35,000 child pornographic images and movie files after downloading the material in internet cafes has been given a two-year jail-term.

A NUMBER of priests have still resisted requests for them to submit to Garda vetting procedures.

A MAN was deemed to be entering priesthood for “the wrong reasons” and scored very highly on the psychosis scale, but then went on to be suspected of abusing children after spiking their drinks in three Cloyne parishes.

A Cavan man has been sentenced to two years in prison for sexually assaulting random women on the street while on his way home from counselling at a sexual offenders treatment centre.

A youth, who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman after she asked him for directions, was further remanded in custody today.

A Cavan man will be sentenced later for sexually assaulting random women on the street while on his way home from counselling at a sexual offenders treatment centre.

The State has succeeded in increasing the sentence handed down to a former garda sergeant who incited a prostitute to find him children to have sex with.

A MAN who used to smoke 20 joints of cannabis a day and admitted having images of girls aged between 13 and 17 involved in sexual acts, was told to undertake a rehabilitation programme at the Granada Institute in Dublin.

A man who indecently assaulted two of his nephews over a 10-year period nearly 40 years ago has been given a three-year and nine months suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

A 75-year-old former Christian Brother who admitted to indecently assaulting six pupils at two different Dublin schools more than 40 years ago has been jailed for 12 months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 21-year-old Dublin man has been given a five-year sentence for having sex with his underage cousin and sexually abusing her and her younger sister at their granny’s house.

A father-of-two has been sentenced to four years with 18 months suspended for possession of over 50,000 child pornography images.

A "pornography addict" who was caught with over 1,000 images and videos of children being raped and posing naked has been given a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Criminal Court .

A Westmeath man and former Irish solider who raped a 12-year-old girl twice a week for four years has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

SEX offenders will be assessed and possibly monitored on an all-Ireland basis by the end of 2009, according to Minister for Children Barry Andrews.

A Christian brother has been remanded in custody pending sentence after he admitted to sexually assaulting four students in an industrial school 45 years ago.

PLANS to extend a treatment service for sex offenders to the west have been shelved because of a lack of funding.

A credit controller who was caught with 11 video files of child pornography that he had downloaded out of "a morbid curiosity" has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A MAN had to be restrained during the hearing of a case against a well-known writer, who has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee yesterday.

A former Dublin City Council worker who was forced from his home after the appearance of a newspaper report on his arrest for child-pornography possession has been given a suspended sentence.

A Fingal market gardener caught with more than 10,000 images of child pornography mainly showing "very young children in very graphic acts" after Austrian police alerted gardaí will be sentenced shortly.

A west Dublin father who sexually assaulted a young relative while her parents were out has had his sentence adjourned to next December by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A deaf and dumb Czech national who sexually assaulted an Estonian girl after grabbing her on a public street in Dublin and pulling her down a laneway has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A Cavan bachelor who developed "a distorted conception" of his then five to 15-years-old niece as his "life's partner" has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A 49-year-old Kerry resident whose wife reported him to gardaí after finding child pornography on his computer has been given a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

WHILE hard-core pornography does not sell itself on violence, it focuses on how young and innocent the women it depicts are.

THERE is growing alarm at the destructive effect extreme pornography is having on Irish society.

CAMPAIGNERS have called for accessible treatment places for paedophiles after new research revealed the success of therapy programmes.

A north Wicklow man who sexually abused two nieces over 30 years ago has been jailed for three years by Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill at the Central Criminal Court.

A pensioner with "a long-standing entrenched sexual interest in children" dating back over 40 years has been sentenced to two years in prison for possession of child pornography.

A bookkeeper who admitted to being in possession of 1,200 child pornographic texts and videos has been given a three years suspended sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A pensioner with "a long-standing entrenched sexual interest in children" dating back over 40 years has had his sentence for possession of child pornography further adjourned to allow Judge Katherine Delahunt consider updated reports.

The sentencing of a former civil servant who downloaded child pornographic images has been adjourned to allow him apply for Health Service Executive funding for psychotherapy treatment at The Granada Institute.

A father of five who sexually abused his eldest daughter more than 24 years ago has been sentenced to six years in jail by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who sexually assaulted a neighbour's four year old son told gardaí he was not a "normal person" and wanted to be caught so he would no longer be a danger to children.

Sex offenders weren't allowed a chance of rehabilitation by society "whipped on by the tabloid media", Mr Justice Paul Carney said when he jailed a man for seven years for orally raping his stepdaughter.

SOME of Gustav Dahm’s victims and their families were in court yesterday and gave harrowing accounts of the effects the abuse had on them.

A former civil servant who downloaded child pornographic images described as "amongst the worst that have ever come before the courts" will be jailed unless he begins attending the Granada Institute.

A 40-year-old man who molested his then 13-year-old nephew and e-mailed naked photographs of the teenager to an acquaintance, has been jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A retired priest who forced a then 16-year-old boy to perform oral and anal sex on him 20 years ago has escaped a prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 69-year-old Co Clare man who sexually abused his three granddaughters has been given a three-year jail sentence by Mr Justice Paul Butler at the Central Criminal Court.

A former AIB executive, youth soccer coach and scout leader who filmed young boys in sexual poses has been jailed for two and a half years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who downloaded child pornography from the internet out of what he claimed was curiosity, has been remanded on bail for sentence early next year.

A former Dublin garda, who was due to be sentenced on child porn charges today, had his case adjourned for two weeks.