Paul O'Carroll receives suspended sentence for child pornography

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Paul O'Carroll received a fully suspended three-year sentence for possessing child pornography at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 29 March 2023.

The offences involved 3,910 images and 376 movie files found at his home in Knocklyon, Dublin, on 4 August 2017.

Judge Martin Nolan said O'Carroll was unlikely to reoffend and had good insight into his wrongdoing.

The report said a US child protection agency's tip led gardaí to investigate a Facebook account and trace its IP address to O'Carroll's home.