Former bank worker avoids jail for child pornography offences
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A former bank worker caught with thousands of sexually explicit images of children has been given a fully suspended sentence.
Robert Traynor (54) told gardaí that he believed the images were of adults posing as children, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.
Traynor, with an address in Crumlin, Dublin pleaded guilty to possession of 1,938 images and 183 videos of child pornography on February 2, 2018. He also admitted the production of 1,650 computer generated images on September 22, 2014, contrary to the 1998 child trafficking pornography act.
Sentencing him on Friday, Judge Pauline Codd said the offending material involved the “gross exploitation” of children, which she described as “abhorrent”.
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