An software might be made to have a case in opposition to a teenage lady charged with the possession of kid intercourse photos be retained by the Kids’s Court docket.
The 17-year-old lady, who can’t be named for authorized causes, appeared earlier than Decide Éiteáin Cunningham at Letterkenny District Court docket this week. Beforehand, she was introduced earlier than Decide Vincent Deane final week.
She is charged that on February 12, 2023, at an tackle in Letterkenny, did knowingly have in her possession little one pornography to wit 5 movies and eight photos. The cost is opposite to part 6 (1) of the Youngster Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1998.
The lady’s solicitor, Mr Frank Dorrian, stated he can be searching for a Part 75 listening to below the Kids’s Act.
Below such an software, a defence staff could make submissions, citing the age, maturity or different related components pertaining to a defendant.
The courtroom was advised that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has instructed prosecution on indictment.
Below part 75 of the Kids’s Act, the Kids’s Court docket can train discretion to just accept jurisdiction in circumstances the place a baby is charged with an indictable offence – apart from particular exceptions akin to manslaughter – and cope with them summarily.
The courtroom can be given a abstract of the proof and would hear submissions from the State and the defence earlier than the presiding choose would make a willpower.
Sergeant Jim Collins stated that gardai can be opposing the applying for a Part 75 listening to, which might be heard in early Could.
Bail has been granted on situations that embody that she haven’t any unsupervised entry to social media.
Software for Kids’s Court docket to listen to little one intercourse materials case of Donegal lady (17) was final modified: April twenty fourth, 2024 by
