Sounding off: Veterans say their standard-issue earplugs caused hearing loss
One of the largest mass tort cases in the U.S. is heading to trial this month
Sounding Off By Jackson Hicks and Sandra Jones | March 16, 2021 at 7:50 AM HST - Updated March 23 at 8:42 AM
(InvestigateTV) - Hundreds of thousands of veterans across the country say they’ve suffered hearing loss and permanent ringing in their ears after their government-issued ear plugs failed to protect them.
“I had the hearing of like a 60-year-old man when I was 30,” said Brett James Bailey, an Army veteran. “I’ve come to terms with the fact that at some point I’m probably going to have to have a hearing aid.”
Sounding off: Veterans say their standard-issue earplugs caused hearing loss
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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”.