Former teacher asked young schoolgirl for naked pictures in sexual exchanges … – The Irish Times

A former teacher who told a young schoolgirl that he wanted to take her virginity and asked her for naked pictures of herself in sexual exchanges on Instagram has appeared in court.John Murphy (42), a married father of one from Ferncourt Crescent, Ballycullen, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to a charge of the sexual exploitation of a child between June 2017 and June 2018 before a sitting of Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court.Murphy, who comes originally from Galway and was teaching mathematics and science at a school in Tallaght at the time of the offending, also pleaded guilty to a separate charge of the possession of child pornography between December 2007 and December 2010.Detective Garda Sandra Forde told the court that the case arose after the girl’s mother became aware of hundreds of texts between Murphy and the girl when she discovered her daughter’s Instagram account open on her mobile phone.Det Garda Forde said the exchanges had been going on for around 12 months between June 2017 and June 2018 and had just ended before they had been discovered by the girl’s mother.She said many of the texts were of a general conversation but there were also a lot of texts of
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