Tullamore Court hears sex offender ‘befriended’ 10-year-old Midlands girl on Snapchat

TULLAMORE Circuit Court heard how a 32-year-old man “befriended” a 10-year-old Midlands girl on Snapchat and sent her messages and an image of a sexual nature. The man, who is from a different part of Leinster from the girl and who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty in April to an offence under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017. He then appeared before Judge Keenan Johnson where a detective sergeant, replying to William Fennelly, BL, prosecuting, gave evidence that gardai received a phone call in March 2022 from the mother of the child. The evidence was that after befriending the 10-year-old on Snapchat the girl received a message from a person unknown to her saying “How are you sexy?” The girl asked who the individual was and the reply was that she was “sexy” and the mother took the phone from her daughter and immediately found that she knew the person who was communicating with the girl, having been in contact with him a number of years previously. After the mother took the phone the man made video calls to it and made various videos and sent messages with “Show me you”. When the man persisted in
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