1.5 million images of child sexual abuse = 27 months jail time, like why the fuck hasn’t judge Nolan been forced to step down or at least been investigated himself
Can these kinds of predators really be rehabilitated? He’s a danger, and the sentence should be multiple times longer.
1.5 million?? I know there are going to be multiples of the same child but for every image produced a child was abused. That’s a staggering number even if amounted to 10% of the total images being victims.
Wow, someone was actually fucking jailed?
Sooooooo…..he will be paroled in 9 months….
What the fuck? I’ve never seen a case like this with such a high number. That’s insane. Usually if it’s something in the low thousands, that considered pretty bad. Huw Edwards for example had 37 (albeit of different categories).
Unbelievable it’s only 27 months. If they said 10, I’d still be thinking he was lucky.
Imagine the Guards who would’ve had to go through all of that, fucking hell.
I don’t believe for one minute that someone whose been involved at that level of accessing this stuff, for that long, can suddenly leave it all behind them and turn their life around.
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If he looked at 1 image a second, 24 hours a day, it would take over 17 days to view all those images. That’s an insane amount of CSAM. How would the Garda even go through all of that?
That’s less than a minute in prison for each image, fuck me
>Byrne attended by appointment in Tallaght Garda Station on August 16th, 2024. He took responsibility for all the devices. He said he had been accessing such material from the age of 13 either through the dark web, WhatsApp groups or other social media platforms.
So this man has ratted out the people that gave him the material, which is why they are going lenient on the sentence? They must’ve nailed Jimmy Savile, Joseph Fritzl and Jeffery Epstein to be able to come away from 1,440,675 images and videos and not even getting 3 years in prison. That is a mind boggling amount CP on his hard drives (which he says that he stopped looking at in 2021, without deleting it? C’mon now). There are some lads that get upto 7 years on some drug possession offenses and this lad will be out for paddy’s day 2028.
>The judge imposed a sentence of 27 months, having taken into account the various mitigating features in the case – including his co-operation with the investigation and his admissions of guilt.
How Nolan can still practice law, let alone sit as a judge defies all common sense imaginable. Can anyone in the legal field explain how the man has not been investigated on the leniency of his sentences when it comes to specific kinds of cases?
Why is that your man’s beard stereotyped me towards people with beards are these types of people
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27 months. 821 days. 2 and a 1/4 years. That’s a joke whatever timeframe you give it.
so theyre increasing censorship on the internt for protection chikdren snd here we are with this c**nt only getting 27months
The porn available at a click is seriously fucking up people I think. It’s like any addiction. At some point you want and need more and more. It takes over.
I’m saying this as someone who can’t pose for a photo as an adult due to the trauma I experienced as a child “posing” for photos.
This absolutely isn’t a victimless crime. No amount of months or years in prison will help the kids, adolescents, or adults who have been used and abused.
Jesus it’s just so sad and upsetting.
Surely a number like that would imply an intent not only to consume, but also to distribute? That’s surely worth a more significant jail time?
Judge Nolan for those wondering.
That’s a joke of a sentence. I believe in rehabilitation into society but 1.5 *million* images?
Roughly 1 day per 1852 images basically if my maths is right.
27 months…. Should be 10-15 years easily
27 months? Before he gets put in front of a firing squad?! What kind of nothing punishment is 2¼ year for 1.5 million images?!
1.5 mil pictures, it is clear that guy was distributing. 27 months is a joke, should be 27 years.
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A lot of people here in shock at the amount of images. Unfortuantely from my time as an intern / apprentice at a criminal law firm I came across a couple of these cases and have some info – although it may be outdated as this was back in 2006 and 2007. But the number is entirely believable.
Basically, back in the day there were Russian and Ukrainian criminal rings that produced CSAM for money. They operated them by paying parents to do nude fashion shoots of their children, basically just attempting to skirt some law that nudity was okay as long as there was no sexual activity (of course it was all, in fact, completely illegal as it wasn’t natural nudity / nudism, and many of the children were being sexually assaulted). Anyway these places would produce sets of like 30 shoots of different children with roughly 200 images, and produce a set every month. There were like 30 months of material. So 30x30x200 = 180,000 images. Just to start. And there were at least 5 “studios” pumping out this material for like three years 1999-2002.
So these russian sites would get money off people and then they’d just download it all like a kind of encrypted distributed torrent. So within a couple days of signing up a criminal could be up to 1m images without much effort.
Good news is that it was all shut down in 2002, everyone was sent to the gulag and I don’t think anything like that replaced it. It’s all documented on wikipedia if you want to safe-search it.
Also good news is that I understand that all of these images are now automatically extracted from hardware and then checked by a piece of software that checks pre-generated “perceptual hashes” of known CSAM that has been documented by international police vs the extracted images themselves – so it’s not a bunch of guards going around checking image by image. If an image DOESN’T have a p-hash match, THEN they have to check it because it could be new material unknown to the international agencies, which suggests a child in need of urgent rescue. That’s the hard part.
But I don’t think the mental image of the guards having to go through 1.5m images is an accurate one, thank god.
I remember the dread in my heart having to drive from Cork to Castlerea prison to meet a random pedo. Awful business. Anyway, needless to say the criminal law was NOT for me.
Ridiculously lenient sentence aside does anyone else always check for the name in the article to see if they know these guys?
Martin Nolan was the judge wasn’t he?
That’s plenty of time if they put him in gen pop. They love child abusers there.
The Director of Pedo Protection at work.
Guess that judge
For a second, I thought it said 27 years..Seems a bit more fitting.
Only 27 months? People get locked up longer for fraud! Something very wrong with the judicial system
What’s interesting is the article states he stopped collecting CSAM around the age of 21 or 22. He’s 26 now. I wonder how he aroused suspicion. Bringing an old laptop in for repair and being discovered. Gifting a device without formatting it. Someone turning on a computer and happening upon it.
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Is this really a surprise any more?
1.5 million images of child sexual abuse = 27 months jail time, like why the fuck hasn’t judge Nolan been forced to step down or at least been investigated himself
Can these kinds of predators really be rehabilitated? He’s a danger, and the sentence should be multiple times longer.
1.5 million?? I know there are going to be multiples of the same child but for every image produced a child was abused. That’s a staggering number even if amounted to 10% of the total images being victims.
Wow, someone was actually fucking jailed?
Sooooooo…..he will be paroled in 9 months….
What the fuck? I’ve never seen a case like this with such a high number. That’s insane. Usually if it’s something in the low thousands, that considered pretty bad. Huw Edwards for example had 37 (albeit of different categories).
Unbelievable it’s only 27 months. If they said 10, I’d still be thinking he was lucky.
Imagine the Guards who would’ve had to go through all of that, fucking hell.
I don’t believe for one minute that someone whose been involved at that level of accessing this stuff, for that long, can suddenly leave it all behind them and turn their life around.
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If he looked at 1 image a second, 24 hours a day, it would take over 17 days to view all those images. That’s an insane amount of CSAM. How would the Garda even go through all of that?
That’s less than a minute in prison for each image, fuck me
>Byrne attended by appointment in Tallaght Garda Station on August 16th, 2024. He took responsibility for all the devices. He said he had been accessing such material from the age of 13 either through the dark web, WhatsApp groups or other social media platforms.
So this man has ratted out the people that gave him the material, which is why they are going lenient on the sentence? They must’ve nailed Jimmy Savile, Joseph Fritzl and Jeffery Epstein to be able to come away from 1,440,675 images and videos and not even getting 3 years in prison. That is a mind boggling amount CP on his hard drives (which he says that he stopped looking at in 2021, without deleting it? C’mon now). There are some lads that get upto 7 years on some drug possession offenses and this lad will be out for paddy’s day 2028.
>The judge imposed a sentence of 27 months, having taken into account the various mitigating features in the case – including his co-operation with the investigation and his admissions of guilt.
How Nolan can still practice law, let alone sit as a judge defies all common sense imaginable. Can anyone in the legal field explain how the man has not been investigated on the leniency of his sentences when it comes to specific kinds of cases?
Why is that your man’s beard stereotyped me towards people with beards are these types of people
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27 months. 821 days. 2 and a 1/4 years. That’s a joke whatever timeframe you give it.
so theyre increasing censorship on the internt for protection chikdren snd here we are with this c**nt only getting 27months
The porn available at a click is seriously fucking up people I think. It’s like any addiction. At some point you want and need more and more. It takes over.
I’m saying this as someone who can’t pose for a photo as an adult due to the trauma I experienced as a child “posing” for photos.
This absolutely isn’t a victimless crime. No amount of months or years in prison will help the kids, adolescents, or adults who have been used and abused.
Jesus it’s just so sad and upsetting.
Surely a number like that would imply an intent not only to consume, but also to distribute? That’s surely worth a more significant jail time?
Judge Nolan for those wondering.
That’s a joke of a sentence. I believe in rehabilitation into society but 1.5 *million* images?
Roughly 1 day per 1852 images basically if my maths is right.
27 months…. Should be 10-15 years easily
27 months? Before he gets put in front of a firing squad?! What kind of nothing punishment is 2¼ year for 1.5 million images?!
1.5 mil pictures, it is clear that guy was distributing. 27 months is a joke, should be 27 years.
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A lot of people here in shock at the amount of images. Unfortuantely from my time as an intern / apprentice at a criminal law firm I came across a couple of these cases and have some info – although it may be outdated as this was back in 2006 and 2007. But the number is entirely believable.
Basically, back in the day there were Russian and Ukrainian criminal rings that produced CSAM for money. They operated them by paying parents to do nude fashion shoots of their children, basically just attempting to skirt some law that nudity was okay as long as there was no sexual activity (of course it was all, in fact, completely illegal as it wasn’t natural nudity / nudism, and many of the children were being sexually assaulted). Anyway these places would produce sets of like 30 shoots of different children with roughly 200 images, and produce a set every month. There were like 30 months of material. So 30x30x200 = 180,000 images. Just to start. And there were at least 5 “studios” pumping out this material for like three years 1999-2002.
So these russian sites would get money off people and then they’d just download it all like a kind of encrypted distributed torrent. So within a couple days of signing up a criminal could be up to 1m images without much effort.
Good news is that it was all shut down in 2002, everyone was sent to the gulag and I don’t think anything like that replaced it. It’s all documented on wikipedia if you want to safe-search it.
Also good news is that I understand that all of these images are now automatically extracted from hardware and then checked by a piece of software that checks pre-generated “perceptual hashes” of known CSAM that has been documented by international police vs the extracted images themselves – so it’s not a bunch of guards going around checking image by image. If an image DOESN’T have a p-hash match, THEN they have to check it because it could be new material unknown to the international agencies, which suggests a child in need of urgent rescue. That’s the hard part.
But I don’t think the mental image of the guards having to go through 1.5m images is an accurate one, thank god.
I remember the dread in my heart having to drive from Cork to Castlerea prison to meet a random pedo. Awful business. Anyway, needless to say the criminal law was NOT for me.
Ridiculously lenient sentence aside does anyone else always check for the name in the article to see if they know these guys?
Martin Nolan was the judge wasn’t he?
That’s plenty of time if they put him in gen pop. They love child abusers there.
The Director of Pedo Protection at work.
Guess that judge
For a second, I thought it said 27 years..Seems a bit more fitting.
Only 27 months? People get locked up longer for fraud! Something very wrong with the judicial system
What’s interesting is the article states he stopped collecting CSAM around the age of 21 or 22. He’s 26 now. I wonder how he aroused suspicion. Bringing an old laptop in for repair and being discovered. Gifting a device without formatting it. Someone turning on a computer and happening upon it.
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