'One is one too many', judge tells Cork man, 73, caught with 136 child sexual abuse images

Court heard gardaí went to the defendant’s house in 2019 and seized a number of electronic devices, which were found to contain a total of 136 images, and evidence he sent one image on Facebook to someone in the UK

Accused received a three-year suspended sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Picture: Larry Cummins

An elderly West Cork man who was caught with child sexual abuse images and distributing one of the images was told by the sentencing judge that “even one is one too many”.

Judge Helen Boyle made this comment to 73-year-old Barry Moloney, of Ardán, Bandon, Co Cork, as she imposed a three-year suspended sentence on him at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.