Child porn distributer was raped from age 4, court hears

The Court of Appeal has refused the Director of Public Prosecutions' challenge to a suspended sentence imposed on a 78-year-old man convicted of child pornography offences. The man, formerly of Clare Island, County Mayo, was sentenced to two years wholly suspended at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court in February 2019 after gardaí discovered 586 video clips and 365 images of child sexual abuse material on his laptop…