Man who ‘catfished’ boys to get naked pictures of them placed on probation bond

A young Dublin man who engaged in “catfishing” to lure teenage boys into sharing explicit images of themselves online has been placed on a probation bond for two years.

Mooney later told gardaí that he had contacted up to 15 teenage boys in the two years before he was caught. The computer had 476 videos of child pornography, which had a total running time of 42 hours. Of these videos, 387 depicted children witnessing or engaging in explicit sexual acts, while 89 showed children’s anal or genital regions.

She said on Tuesday that Mooney’s interest in this particular material developed at a stage in his life while he was still a child himself. She noted that it had come to an end by the time it was ultimately detected.

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