Cork student who shared child sexual abuse video on Snapchat spared jail

Bandon man pleaded guilty to possession of videos and images

The judge imposed a suspended two-year sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

A student who shared a child sexual abuse video on his Snapchat group acted immaturely and naïvely believing at the time that what he was doing was a joke.

As Judge Sinead Behan imposed a fully suspended sentence on Yahia Rfaai, aged 22, of Heron Court, Bandon, County Cork, she acknowledged that the man never searched for the items that had been shared to him on his Snapchat.