2021-11-15
'Reprehensible' exploitation of girl (14) with special needs won't see bigger sentence
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: However, she also noted that the offence took place around the same time of the other offences for which O'Regan was subsequently jailed over, and said court was refusing the DPP's appeal to have the term increased. At Cork Circuit Criminal Court in 2019, O'Regan was handed down a six-year sentence, with half of it suspended, for the sexual exploitation of young girls he met on the internet.