More than 5, readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal. A DUBLIN MAN who possessed thousands of child porn images and coerced young girls to send him sexually graphic pictures and videos of themselves has been jailed for seven and a half years. Matthew Horan 26 used Skype, Snapchat, Instagram and Kik, an anonymous instant messaging application, to send and receive child porn images from six identified child users in Ireland and nine unknown users around the world. The recordings included footage of these girls engaging in graphic sexual acts. Horan also took part in sexually explicit text conversations with the girls, during which there would be an exchange of photos. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard Horan would use Kik to share child porn images and videos with unidentified users from around the world, most of whom claimed to be young teenagers. In the text exchange between them, this girl repeatedly told Horan that she would kill herself. He then continued to coerce her to send more images, the court heard. He pleaded guilty to two more counts of sexually exploiting a child and one count of distributing child porn on dates in
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He further pleaded guilty to possessing child porn at his address on 11 July He pleaded guilty to three further counts of sexually exploiting female children through Snapchat and Instagram in the State on dates between 21 May and 7 July He also pleaded guilty to possessing child porn on a Sony mobile phone at his home on 7 July He has no previous convictions. Judge Nolan backdated the sentence to June last year, when Horan went into custody. He ordered a report from the Probation Service into what interventions and services the prison service could provide to reform Horan. She said she felt sad and angry about the exploitation but she wanted to prevent it happening to anybody else. Two other victim impact statements, written by the parents of two of the nine-year-old victims, were read out in court on Monday. They seized a number of devices and got him to disclose all of the passwords to his online applications. Some of these involved young babies.Horan also engaged in graphic text exchanges with the child users in which he would describe violent sexual acts. Connolly said Horan would copy and paste the same descriptions of sexual acts he would like to do and send them to multiple message recipients. Connolly told Mr Staines that forensic experts also found Skype conversations between Horan and an individual who is currently under investigation and who a daughter. Connolly agreed with Patrick Gageby SC, defending, that his client had a closed existence with incessant activity on the internet. He further agreed that Horan had never established physical contact with any of the children and there was no evidence of commercial gain through sharing the images. Gageby said his client was a perpetual loner who was on the autism spectrum. He said the death of his mother when he was aged three left his father adrift and this had an effect on his upbringing. He said Horan lived a dingy existence and that since completing his Leaving Cert in he has done nothing except to be at home and be on the computer.
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On Monday the father of one of the then nine-year-old girls made a victim impact statement on her behalf, describing how she was targeted by an online predator who she thought was a child her own age. He said she had bought her Samsung phone with her Communion money to watch cartoons, dancing and singing online. The man said he also felt guilty because he had failed to protect his child. He said he was upset and uncomfortable because once something was out there on the internet, it could never be erased. The mother said she felt so bad that she failed to protect her child and that she would never get over what happened. Readers like you keep news free for everyone. For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.
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