Two-year jail term too lenient

TWO years in jail on conviction for soliciting a woman to procure a child for the purpose her sexual exploitation and the possession of child pornography would appear inexplicably lenient to the layman.

Yet, that is the length of time a former garda sergeant will serve in jail, having been convicted of those offences in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

To the credit of a prostitute he approached to aid and abet him in his vile criminal intent, she reported him to the gardaí and her social conscience is responsible for removing, even for a comparatively short period, this sexual deviant.