'Snapchat a haven for paedophiles': Cork sex offender messaged girl hours after prison release

A 15-year ban included prohibitions on him contacting any child under the age of 18 or going within 50 metres of a school or where children congregate

The Snapchat message that he sent to a teenaged girl on September 15, 2025, used a popular song but altered to words to make them sexually suggestive. File photo: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images

A 51-year-old Mitchelstown man sent a sexual Snapchat message to a schoolgirl within three hours of his prison release from a sentence for a sexual assault despite strict conditions on him under the Sex Offenders Register.

When Detective Garda David Barry questioned Anthony Quigley of Roche’s Heights, Mitchelstown, County Cork, about this latest of many offences he admitted using the ID, SusieLOL as a decoy and said to gardaí: “Snapchat is like a haven for paedophiles”.