Mark Keogh jailed for child sexual exploitation and abuse images

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Mark Keogh was sentenced to five years, with the final three-and-a-half years suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 16 June 2020, after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and possessing child abuse images. The offences involved encouraging teenage boys to send naked photographs while he posed as a 17-year-old girl on Facebook.

Keogh had created the account under the name Nicole Doyle and sent 321 requests to 14 boys aged between 13 and 16. Gardaí found 717 child abuse images on his laptop, including 399 relating to 12 of those boys. The court was told he had no previous convictions and suffered from anxiety and severe autism.