Journalist pleads guilty to six sexual offences against girl

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A journalist pleaded guilty to six sexual offences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. He pleaded guilty on the morning of his trial. The charges comprised two counts of defilement of a child between December 5th, 2010 and February 19th, 2011, and four counts of inviting a child to participate in a sexually explicit, obscene or indecent act between January 2010 and March 2011. Judge Patricia Ryan remanded him on continuing bail until July 3rd, 2017, when he was due to be sentenced. The proceedings were reported on 7 March 2017. The DPP was not proceeding with a further three charges relating to the victim.