2017-11-10
Jail for former teacher caught with thousands of child porn images
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Credit: Collins) By Jessica Magee and Isabel Hayes A former teacher and table tennis coach who was found in possession of thousands of child pornography images has been jailed for one year. 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.