Three-year delay in processing cases of child porn

Gardaí are taking more than three years to process some prosecutions for child pornography, it has emerged.

Three-year delay in processing cases of child porn

The disturbing revelation came at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court, where Judge Thomas O’Donnell said he was “flabbergasted” at the delay.

He was told by a detective from the Garda Computer Crime Investigations Unit, which examines computers from crimes ranging from pornography to bank probes, that the volume of material before it was “very large”.

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