Moycullen man pleads guilty to child porn charge

A 29-year-old Moycullen man will be sentenced next week for possessing child pornography at a rented house in the city last year.

Sean Stewart, from Drumaveg, Moycullen, pleaded guilty this morning before Galway Circuit Criminal Court to a single charge of having child pornography in his possession containing visual representations relating to persons who were or who were depicted as being children under the age of 17 years and who were engaged in or were depicted as being engaged in explicit sexual activity on a HP G60 laptop, on a Scandisk Cruzer USB stick, on a Samsung GT-15500 mobile phone and on a Samsung GT-5839i mobile phone, at a house in Gort na Glaise, Sandy Road, Galway, on November 27, 2013, contrary to Section 6 (1) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1988.

Defence barrister, Bernard Condon SC, told the court the prosecuting Garda was not available today and he asked for sentence to be adjourned to next week.

Judge Rory McCabe agreed to adjourn sentence to next Wednesday, March 25th.