Man avoids jail for 15,000 child porn images

A RAPE crisis centre chief has expressed concern over the ease of access to online pornographic images after a public servant downloaded over 15,000 images and files of naked children.

Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop’s warning came after David Ivers, from Midleton, Co Cork, received a four-year suspended sentence for possession of child pornography in September 2007.

Ms O’Malley-Dunlop, who heads the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, said it was a very serious offence as the images were “real children”.