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A MUSIC TEACHER who had hundreds of child pornography images on his computer has received a suspended prison sentence.
Peter Jennings (49) pleaded guilty to possession of the material at an address in Finglas, Dublin on 30 July 2010.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today that it took five years before the files found on his computers could be properly assessed because of resource issues in the garda’s computer crime investigations unit.
Garda Sergeant Bridget Buckley told the court that on analysis, gardai found 1300 unique image files and 11 unique movie files depicting child pornography.
She said 935 of these depicted child nudity while the remainder depicted “erotic posing of children” or children “engaging in sexual activity”.
She said that a system formerly used by gardai to rate the seriousness of the images was no longer used because it exposed the analyst to risk and took a lot of time.
Philipp Rahn, defending, told the court that there was no excuse for his client’s behaviour. He said Jennings had a history of low moods and had taken to smoking cannabis at the time.
He said a report from the Probation Services assessed Jennings as being at a low risk of re-offending. He has not offended since the files were discovered in 2010 and has no previous convictions.
The court heard Jennings was living at the family home in Dunsink at the time but left the family home after his offending came to light. Rahn said his client’s family were devastated by his offending.
Garda Sergeant Aidan Flanagan said that at the time, Jennings worked as a music teacher at Ballyfermot Ceoil giving after-school group lessons to children aged seven to 12 years old.
The court heard he is a talented musician who has had to give up teaching and playing music gigs.
Judge Martin Nolan suspended a prison sentence of two and a half years on condition that Jennings keep the peace for that period. He also ordered him to engage with the Probation Services.
He said it was a serious offence but noted that Jennings was remorseful and that there was no question of him distributing the material or paying for it.
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Of course she is. No surprise there. Helps when you have friends in high places and neighbours with David Cameron.
And you know their secrets.
Pay back time for Murdoch……
You really have to admire her. She’s a tough self-made woman who commands Murdoch’s respect. Not an easy thing to achieve in the male dominated media world.
I wish I had previously bought these two newspapers so I could stop buying them.
@john
Yeah, and pigs can fly!
She has even lower moral standards than that moron Murdoch himself!
She should be in jail where criminals like her belong!
And around and around we go. Nothing is new. The British seem to have the same problem as us. The usual Cretans always float to the top.
No we have the same problem as then because we model our society on then. If we wanted to break free from that cycle we could model ourselves on the Scandinavians but we won’t.
Yes Chris in more ways than one!
Un-be-f####ng-lievable. Read private eyes coverage of this,higher ups at the sun basically ratted out a rake of lowly hacks and gave up sources to protect this wagon and rupes.
Morally bankrupt situation
As the saying goes..”The Devil looks after his own”…
so she still gets to keep her 22 million aswell .. nice
We create these people by buying their filth.
oh would you just go away
Women and power eh?
Orange is the new hack
C an’t U nderestimate N ewspaper T yranny
better change the access code on my phone so
One tough ruthless cookie
Now she can concentrate on killing Bart Simpson again.
Has she got through the twenty two million pay off already?
Should get a facelift is pig ugly
Foxy lady………………
Ross kemp could do an expose on this …..
“Ross Kemp on Rebekah Brooks”?
She gets £16 million for quitting. Milly Dowler’s family got less than £2 million, for having the investigation into their daughter’s disappearance severely compromised, and for being given false hope that she was still alive, because of the amoral actions of this awful person and the hacks she employed. The Murdoch clearly believes we all have very short memories
hahahahhahahahahahajahajajahahahahahahahahahhahahahah (you couldn’t make this S**t up) hajahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Well we know the lies and filthe that these rags print so why not have filth and a liar in charge.
shes a husband beater
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