'Obsessed' US man admits harassing Cork doctor for 20 years after J1 summer romance

At his first court appearance last month, the court heard the complainant spent years blocking his emails and social media messages

Steven Spenneberg had left the woman a voicemail saying "desperate people do desperate things". Picture: Tom Tuite

An American actor pleaded guilty on Friday to harassment of an Irish doctor almost 20 years after they dated for three weeks when she was a student on a J1 visa.

A bail hearing was told that for nearly two decades, Steven Spenneberg, 55, constantly sent unwanted gifts and messages declaring his love to the woman he had last seen in 2004.