Sentencing in McMahon child porn case adjourned

The sentencing of a former civil servant who downloaded child pornographic images has been adjourned to allow him apply for Health Service Executive funding for psychotherapy treatment at The Granada Institute.

Gerard McMahon (aged 53), a divorced father of six, of The Richmond, off North Brunswick Street, was earlier warned by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that she will impose a custodial sentence unless he begins psychotherapy at the Institute as previously intimated.