A POLISH man who was caught looking at child pornography in an internet cafe, leading to the discovery of more than 1,000 images in his home, has had his sentence adjourned for six months to allow further interaction with the Probation Services.
Radoslaw Psuj (34), a political science graduate, told gardaí he did not get sexual pleasure from the images.
Psuj, The Oaks, Pelletstown Manor, River Road, Ashtown, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of the files at his former address and at the internet cafe on July 28th, 2006. He was working for a security company in Ireland and was in Cybernet internet cafe on North Circular Road when a customer noticed he was looking at sexual images of children.
The customer alerted a garda and a computer was taken for examination from Psuj’s then home in Portland Street North where he lived with his pregnant girlfriend.
Det Garda Jim Clavin told Úna Ní Raifeartaigh, prosecuting, that a USB drive and CPU containing nearly 1,000 images, seven movies and 12 stories involving child pornography were found there.
Psuj said he would not go online specifically to view the images but would get bored and start looking for them because he was “curious” and found them “surprising”.
Defence counsel Erwan Mill-Arden SC said Psuj had been in the country a few months when he was arrested and was anxious to return to Poland where his girlfriend lived with his now-14-month-old son.
A report suggested he would benefit from continued interaction with the Probation Service and Judge Desmond Hogan put the matter back until next April.