Man filmed disabled nephew being raped by father

A 27-year-old man has admitted videoing and photographing his six-year-old disabled nephew being raped by the boy’s father.

The circuit court heard yesterday that the accused’s brother and the accused himself were arrested by gardaí after an international police investigation into child pornography led to an address in Tipperary. Sentence will be passed today.

Computer equipment seized at the accused’s brother’s address had 11,472 images and 67 video files of child pornography, in some of which the six-year-old boy could be identified; while 955 more image files and a video were found on a USB stick at an industrial unit used by the accused’s brother.