Disabled son raped to make child porn

A man who raped his own disabled child for the production of child pornography has been jailed for 20 years.

The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his son, was identified by an international policing operation against child pornography.

Detectives from the Garda National Paedophile Investigation Unit tracked the man down using an IP address and, during a search of his home in March 2015, they discovered 12,427 images of child pornography. These included images depicting graphic sexual assault by adults of children as young as two weeks old. More than 5,500 of these images related to his son, who was aged 6 to 7 during the time the images were produced.