{"id":482027,"date":"2026-05-13T05:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:09:17","slug":"male-had-643-images-and-27-videos-of-child-sex-abuse-cork-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482027\/","title":{"rendered":"Male had 643 images and 27 videos of child sex abuse, Cork court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A 23-year-old man entered a plea of guilty to possession of child sex abuse imagery at Cork Circuit Criminal Court today (May 12)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Detective Garda Brian Morris of the Garda Protective Services Unit charged Giovanni Caroto of Ploverfield, Cullen, Mallow, County Cork, with the charge which came before the circuit court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Defence barrister Brian Leahy asked for the accused to be arraigned on the single charge against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This count stated that on November 1 2022 at his home in Mallow he was in possession of child pornography, namely 643 images and 27 video files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Giovanni Caroto pleaded guilty to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Leahy, barrister, asked for a pre-sentencing probation report stating that the accused was suffering various addiction problems at the time and had no previous convictions of any kind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Helen Boyle said that given the nature of the case she would need a risk assessment of the defendant and that it would be appropriate for this to be carried out by the probation service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Leahy also asked for a free leal aid to be extended for the purpose of a psychologist\u2019s report on the defendant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Boyle adjourned sentencing in all of these circumstances until November 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man entered a plea of guilty to possession of child sex abuse imagery at Cork Circuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-482027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116565545194695403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482027","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=482027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}