{"id":98203,"date":"2025-10-02T02:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98203\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:28:11","slug":"man-and-woman-plead-guilty-to-brothel-keeping-in-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98203\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman plead guilty to brothel-keeping in Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man and a woman charged with brothel-keeping on Watercourse Road in Cork in 2021 entered signed guilty pleas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant John Dineen confirmed at Cork District Court the two accused had signed guilty pleas. They were both represented by solicitor Shane Collins-Daly. Free legal aid was granted for the representation of both accused after Judge Dorgan was told they were dependent on social welfare payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> On the application of Sgt Dineen, Judge Mary Dorgan sent the cases forward for sentencing at the sessions of Cork Circuit Criminal Court commencing on October 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">39-year-old Tiberius Bot, of Ross Park, Killavullen, Co Cork, is charged with brothel-keeping contrary to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The single charge against him states that on November 11, 2021, at 1 Bleasby Street Mews, Bleasby Street, Watercourse Road, Cork, he did keep or manage or act or assist in the management of a brothel. He has now admitted that count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">40-year-old Alina Maria Straton, also of Ross Park, Killavullen, admits the same offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In addition, she admitted another charge related to the following day, November 12, 2021, at her home in Kilavullen of having a cannister of pepper spray in her possession, contrary to the Firearms Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and a woman charged with brothel-keeping on Watercourse Road in Cork in 2021 entered signed guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,9,10,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-98203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98203","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=98203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}