5-year sentence for offering boy (13) €50 for sex is cut to 12 months on appeal

A man from Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, has had his five-year prison sentence reduced to twelve months following a successful appeal against his original sentence. Thomas Folliard was convicted at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court of sexually exploiting a child in January 2016 after approaching a thirteen-year-old boy on a street in a Mayo town and offering him fifty euros for sex. The boy refused and reported the…