Cork man who sent 2,500 messages to boy had thousands of sexual abuse images on devices

Man gets suspended four-year sentence

A search of the man’s home and the seizure of phones and computers led to 9,000 files of child pornography being uncovered.

A 28-year-old man had sexually explicit text communications with a 15-year-old boy in Cork amounting to over 2,500 messages over a nine-day period until the boy’s father went to his local garda station with his son to report it.

The investigation that followed included a search of the man’s home and the seizure of phones and computers where over 9,000 files of child pornography were uncovered.