Cork court adjourns case of child sexual abuse images to next year

The defendant is charged with having 3,819 images and 120 movie files at his apartment on Grand Parade

Judge Ó Donnabháin adjourned the case until January 31, 2022. File photo: iStock

The case against a 61-year-old man charged with having thousands of images of child sexual abuse in Cork city more than three years ago has been put back to January of next year.

Garda Neil Walsh originally charged William Sweetnam with an address at an apartment on Grand Parade, Cork, with two counts related to the possession of images of child sexual abuse.