Girl harassed by explicit calls and texts from stranger

A 17-year-old got 80 phonecalls and texts of a rude and explicit nature in one day from a man of more than twice her age whom she did not know.

Gardaí traced the series of harassing phonecalls to two unregistered phones. The unidentified and distressing calls had been going on from Christmas 2015 until May 2016.

It was only when the caller went to top up one of the phones with credit after the complaint was made that gardaí identified the caller as James Crowley, aged 38, of Ballintotis, Castlemartyr, Co Cork.