2018-07-03
"Taboo seeker" caught with hundreds of explicit child abuse images has bail revoked
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: She told Anne-Marie Lawlor SC, defending, that she had read a psychiatric report before the court but said considering the explicit nature of the material and how McDonagh obtained those images, "the case would ultimately necessitate a custodial sentence". She urged Judge Greally to consider imposing a sentence involving probation and welfare services to support McDonagh in the community.; Judge Melanie Greally had remanded McDonagh on continuing bail last month to allow her time to consider the case.