A man who had what gardaí have described as "the vilest and most horrendous ever" video and still images of child pornography has been remanded in custody for sentence by at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Ray Daly (41), a computer technician of Ellensborough Way, Kiltipper, was found guilty by a jury on May 16th on four charges of knowingly having child pornography in his possession on dates from June 1st, 2003 to July 5th, 2004.
Detective Garda Ronan Waldron told the court that Mr Daly was a single man and the father of three children by three different women. He had been suspended from his work to await the outcome of the trial.
Detective Garda Liam Coogan said that videos showing systematic sexual abuse of children as young as two years were recovered following forensic examination by gardaí of computer equipment from Daly's home.
Judge Miriam Reynolds, who viewed some of the material recovered by gardaí from Daly's computer and separate hard drives, said she needed time to consider the case law for these offences before deciding on sentence.
Daly said he "was not interested in this type of content" and denied he was "a collector of child porn". He said he didn't recall seeing children involved in oral sex.
Det Gda Waldron said Daly told gardaí he didn't show the child porn to anyone else. He agreed with gardaí he was "ashamed" of what was shown to him and when asked if his shame was because gardaí had found the images on his equipment, he replied it was "honest shame".
Daly told gardaí: "It just began coming in I suppose because I clicked on it."