'It is chilling': Kerry boys reported to gardaí for sharing intimate photos of girls

'It is chilling': Kerry boys reported to gardaí for sharing intimate photos of girls

Anyone caught sharing intimate images of someone without their consent could then face up to seven years in prison and/or an unlimited fine.

“An explicit degradation” of females who had images of their breasts used in a 'sick game’ by eight young males in Kerry has been reported, days before image-based sexual abuse becomes a jailable offence in Ireland.

The males involved, who are believed to be teenagers from Tralee, reportedly appropriated photos of females from their social media accounts, cropped out their heads, leaving only an image of their breasts, and then shared them to a ‘guess who's cleavage was whose' group.

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