The Nagle case - Sentence does not reflect our values

AT the time the crimes were committed the girl was so young that we cannot name her.

By identifying her we would add to the trauma she endured at the hands of her attacker and the outrage she, her family, and anyone who cares about the values this society is supposed to cherish must feel at the sentence handed down in the Nagle case. In it a man was convicted of making and having child pornography and using a child for sexual exploitation.

Most of us will, or at least should, feel a deep anger because of the inadequate sentence imposed on the child’s attacker, “family friend” Anthony Nagle, aged 48.