Coco's Law: 'a number of prosecutions' expected under landmark legislation

Coco's Law: 'a number of prosecutions' expected under landmark legislation

Coco's Law was introduced following a campaign by Jackie Fox, mother of Nicole,  who died by suicide.

There have been no prosecutions yet taken under the provisions of Coco’s Law but a report from the Department of Justice has said that that a “number of current investigations are likely to lead to prosecutions”.

And, since the creation of an online platform to report intimate image abuse online, 16 cases of the non-consensual sharing of intimate images have been reported to the Garda National Protective Services Bureau.

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