Woman: Fake website left me feeling degraded

A Cork woman was humiliated and distressed to find that a fake website circulated to more than 1,000 men showed legitimate pictures of her interspersed with lewd and sexual pictures of a pornographic model which gave the impression it was her.

A six-month jail sentence was imposed yesterday on the man responsible for this harassment and a related harassment which saw up to 30 men calling to another house believing it was the home of the young woman depicted on the website.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a one-year sentence with half of it suspended on Stephen Downey, aged 24, Lissadell, Maryborough Hill, Douglas, Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Downey wept and was visibly distressed on being sentenced.