Courts / Galway / Report

Retired primary teacher jailed for distributing child porn

Summary

Neil McKay, a 75‑year‑old retired primary school teacher who had lived in Ireland for over twenty years, was jailed after admitting possession of 13,557 images, 1,685 videos, 91 animations and four documents of child pornography. He pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to distributing child pornographic material via Yahoo between 26 November and 2 December 2011. Garda Johanna Doyle described documents that included Google Earth printouts with Scottish locations, boys' names and ages, and a document titled "David's story" detailing sexual activity with an 11‑year‑old boy. McKay's distribution offence involved a conversation in which he offered a folder containing 99 videos of boys in sexual activity. He had previously been convicted in Scotland for indecent photography and for failing to disclose his address to the sex offenders registrar, receiving a 14‑month sentence. After a European Arrest Warrant, he was returned to Ireland and has been on remand since.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Retired primary teacher jailed for distributing child porn. Charges or matters: knowingly distributing child pornography via Yahoo messaging service on dates between November 26, 2011 and December 2, 2011. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

• February 16, 2012 Incident
• November 26, 2011 Hearing Or Sentence
• December 2, 2011 Hearing Or Sentence
• July 2017 Incident
• 2019-10-21 Publication

Case subjects

Places mentioned

Topics

Stage Sentence

Related court reports

• Drunk, disqualified driver who caused death with unroadworthy, overloaded car has sentence cut on appeal
• Driver who went on "pub crawl" before causing death appeals sentence

Read the original CNI report