2017-11-03
Former teacher had hundreds of images of "most serious" child porn
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Credit: Collins) A 58-year-old former teacher and table tennis coach is to be sentenced next week for possession of child pornography five and a half years ago. The fact that children may have been hurt in making these, I am seriously upset about that." Mary Rose Gearty SC, defending, said that through nobody's fault, there had been a systemic delay in bringing this case to court, but that in the interim, O'Donoghue had taken significant steps to rehabilitate himself. "The man being sentenced today is not the man arrested in 2012, because he has since pleaded guilty, served a sentence and completed a Safer Lives programme on his release from prison.; She adjourned the case for sentencing next Friday, November 10.