Man who raped girl for a decade jailed for 12 years
Gardaí interviewed Michael Smith about the abuse in 2004 after a search uncovered a video he had made of him raping her when she was 11. However, he was released without charge and travelled to the UK, where he committed further abuse against another teenage girl he had groomed over social media.
Smith was jailed in the UK in 2008 for this and possession of nearly 20,000 images of child pornography. He was extradited back to Ireland on his release last year and has been in custody since.
