{"id":287957,"date":"2026-01-16T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:36:08","slug":"woman-tells-court-ex-boyfriend-humiliated-her-by-posting-intimate-photos-of-her-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287957\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman tells court ex-boyfriend humiliated her by posting intimate photos of her online"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Co Clare woman has broken down in tears in court after saying that her ex-boyfriend<\/strong> has shamed her and humiliated her<\/strong> by posting intimate photos<\/strong> of her on fake social media profile accounts he created.<\/p>\n

At the Family Law Court in Ennis, the office worker said that \u201cI couldn\u2019t leave the house\u201d after the pictures were posted on the various fake social media profiles for her on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.<\/p>\n

The woman said that her ex-boyfriend\u2019s \u201conly goal is to ruin my life\u201d.<\/p>\n

In this case, Judge Adrian Harris granted the woman a five-year Safety Order under the Domestic Violence Act against her ex-boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Solicitor, Sh\u00edofra Hassett, for the woman said that the man\u2019s actions \u201cmade you so afraid after the end of relationship you didn\u2019t go into the office for a significant period of time\u201d.<\/p>\n

In response, the woman said as a result of the intimate pictures her ex-boyfriend posted on the fake social media accounts \u201cI felt extremely paranoid. I felt humiliated, and I felt shamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In tears in the witness box, the woman said, \u201cA lot of people saw the social media profiles – when you search my name up on social media, these profiles do show up\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cI have had really bad anxiety because of all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the harassment committed by the man against the woman, she said that on his own personal TikTok account, “he has posted my own LinkedIn profile picture, he has posted the Eircode of my company, the address of my company, and the name of my company\u201d.<\/p>\n

The woman agreed with her solicitor, Ms Hassett, when she said that \u201cthe fake social media profiles displayed photos of you of an intimate nature and they would be photos you shared with the man during the course of your relationship\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ms Hassett said that her client has had to take steps to have the fake social media profiles taken down.<\/p>\n

The woman said that the most recent fake social media account was created last month.<\/p>\n

Ms Hassett said that the woman has previously secured a temporary Protection Order against her ex-boyfriend, and there have been breaches of the Protection Order since it was put in place last year.<\/p>\n

The woman said that there were also two instances of the man physically assaulting her.<\/p>\n

She said that in one incident last June, when they were staying in a hotel, \u201cI was in the shower and he just came in and he asked me about other men, making false accusations, and he just punched me while I was in the shower\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said that when they broke up, “he physically attacked me, pulled my hair, pushed me, and he also hit me”.<\/p>\n

Ms Hassett said that since the breakdown in the relationship, the man has contacted her client by email even after the Protection Order was in place.<\/p>\n

She said her client has reported all of these unwanted emails to An Garda Sioch\u00e1na and they are investigating the matter.<\/p>\n

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Ms Hassett said that the garda\u00ed are aware that the man may have left the jurisdiction, and Garda\u00ed are in contact with Interpol concerning the man.<\/p>\n

The man posting the intimate images online of his ex-girlfriend also comes under Coco\u2019s Law, which is formally known as the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 202,0 which criminalises the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.<\/p>\n

In the district court, penalties for the Coco\u2019s Law offence can be up to one year in prison on conviction, and before the circuit court, a 14-year prison term can apply on conviction.<\/p>\n

If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can contact Women\u2019s Aid (24-hour freephone helpline at 1800-341 900, email helpline@womensaid.ie) or Men\u2019s Aid Ireland (confidential helpline at 01-554 3811, email hello@mensaid.ie) for support and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Co Clare woman has broken down in tears in court after saying that her ex-boyfriend has shamed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-287957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115906228080361535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}