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PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins has signed new legislation criminalising the distribution of intimate images without consent into law.
The Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017 covers a wide range of offences, including online abuse, cyberbullying, and image-based abuse.
It has come to be referred to as Coco’s Law after Nicole ‘Coco’ Fox Fenlon, who took her own life in 2018 after a period of prolonged abuse online.
It will provide for two new offences dealing with the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.
The first offence will deal with the taking, distribution, publication or threat to distribute intimate images without consent, and with intent to cause harm to the victim. It will carry a maximum penalty of an unlimited fine and/or 7 years’ imprisonment.
The second offence deals with the taking, distribution or publication of intimate images without consent without a requirement that the person intended to cause harm to the victim. It will carry an offence of a maximum penalty of a €5,000 fine and/or 12 months’ imprisonment.
Existing laws will also be updated in the area of harassment, broadening the scope of the offence of harassment to cover all forms of persistent communications about a person. The most serious forms of harassment will now be punishable with seven to ten years in prison.
President Higgins signed the bill today and it has accordingly become law.
The bill had cross party support and made its way quickly through the Oireachtas in recent weeks.
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With reporting by Sean Murray
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He’s lucky she didn’t divhorse him for that
She should have cried Fowl.
Sergeant I think you mean foal play?
d’oh!
What ever happened to a piece of paper and a few crayons
She’s running in the 3:30 in leopards town tomorrow.
Rumour has it she had the trots for weeks
But why?
Gardai suspect foal play.
That sounds stupid.
Will I be going to that? Answer “Neigh”.
‘Art’… what a load of c**k.
It just seems “Art” lately is all about the shock factor, the weirder something is the more “artsy” it is, if shown in the correct environment, if not it’s just a YouTube video, realistically speaking there isn’t much difference
All for ort.
No thanks
Story horse?
A great article to read over breakfast…yuck!
So stop reading then..
I did after the opening paragraph.
And what exactly was in the 1st paragraph that offended your weak stomach more than the title?!
I thought there must have been more to it than the title suggested. Obviously not. Should I explain myself some more or is my answer satisfactory?
Nah I’m not buying it. Ur saying you sat down to breakfast reading d journal and decided to read that article based on d title but were horrified to find it was exactly wat it said on d tin?! Seriously tho, now that ur porridge has settled its a mad read!
Yes and yes
No matter how much I read this and tried to understand why he injects his wife with horse blood, I cannot get past the fact he jabbed his wife with horse blood. And she lets him. Stupid cXXts…
So if someone wants to buy this piece of “art”, do they get the horse, the missus and all the kit?
Bloody hell
A very brave man indeed. Inject someone else and see what happens.
That’s how Ebola started, some Liberian artist injected his misuses with fruit bat blood
That brings horseplay to a whole new level
She should have just said “neigh” to him
What a load of Horse Sh*t
I suppose as long as it’s not going in burgers…
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