2018-05-31
Men avoid jail over explicit online conversations involving fake 16-year-old
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Passing sentence today, Judge Nolan said although the conversations between the men were "lurid and obscene", it was not the usual type of child pornography that came before the court. "One of the parties pretended to be a 16-year-old girl and this brought these communications within the definition of the act, but the child pornography produced was of the lowest type," said Judge Nolan. "Were both men acting as adults, it may not have come before this court," he remarked.; Judge Martin Nolan heard evidence in the case on Wednesday and adjourned sentencing overnight to consider his ruling.