
She allegedly used it to store and share child pornography with another youth in Munster who later abused another child sexually. She freely offered information about her Dropbox computer file-sharing account, he said. He said that the girl came to a Dublin garda station with her mother when she was aged 13. The girl sat silently throughout the hearing and was not required to give evidence.ĭetective Garda Cathal Connolly gave an outline of the prosecution case. However, Judge Treasa Kelly held that it was too serious. He pleaded for her case to be kept in the Children’s Court. The Director of Public Prosecutions recommended she face “trial on indictment” in the Circuit Circuit, which can impose lengthier sentences.ĭefence solicitor Eoghan O’Sullivan cited her age, “harrowing background”, and the four years it took to charge the teen.

She cannot be identified because of her age. The third charge is possessing the material in late 2016 in a Dropbox account for sharing. She is accused of having had a handwritten diary with drawings and text defined as child pornography. The material was allegedly in a Dropbox computer account in 2017. It is alleged she had 78 images and 72 videos that contained visual representations of a child engaged in explicit sexual activities. She has been charged under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act. The girl, now aged 17, appeared at the Dublin Children’s Court for a preliminary hearing to decide her trial venue. Gardaí commenced an investigation into her online activities four years ago with assistance from US and Canadian authorities.

A 13-YEAR-OLD girl had dozens of child sexual abuse videos and images in a computer file and wrote a diary about her interest in rape, torture and murder of infants and children, a court has heard.
