Paedophile told gardaí he ‘started with adult porn and it spiralled out of control’

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Despite handing up his mobile phone and laptop to gardaí, Timmy Duggan, who pleaded guilty to 22 sample charges last Friday, subsequently found other ways to access children

Despite handing up his mobile phone and laptop to gardaí, he subsequently found other ways to access children.

More than three years after he initially came to Garda attention, the four-time Kerry badminton champion was in October 2019 able to throw a handwritten note at two young girls on a street as he passed by in his car, offering to pay each of them €50 to allow him perform a sex act on himself in front of them in his blue Jaguar.

It emerged too from his Garda interviews he was coaching children in badminton in Kerry and had “two other friends” on Snapchat “who are underage...13-14 years, both female”.Gardaí discovered from his phone more evidence of sexual offences against children, including pictures Duggan confirmed were sent to him by another mother of “a young naked child”.

He said they met on a dating app, and agreed with gardaí he was “eager” to meet the woman’s young son “in the flesh”.The woman who admitted selling images of her children to Duggan told gardaí during interviews following her arrest in August 2019 that when Duggan called to her house she was “drunk” and taking “Xanax”, and was unsure whether he had been alone with her children.

When asked by gardaí whether Duggan had ever been left alone with her children, the woman said: “I don’t recall, but I might have gone to the shop for five minutes, he could have been. He was arrested for the purposes of being charged in October 2021. Asked by detectives whether he considered himself a “paedophile”, he replied: “I didn’t think so, but yes, I am.”He addressed a handwritten confession to his family, dairy farmers well-known and well-respected in agricultural circles in Moyvane, Kerry, saying hiding the truth for the previous six years had “been excruciating”.

Perhaps shielding them from the ugly truth, or returning to a state of denial, Duggan wrote: “The important thing to know is I did not touch or interfere with them. It is a good thing I got caught out as I can continue getting help and start to build my life again and focus on my future.

 

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All these unvetted people wandering around ....

Spiralled out of control? There's no spiral, there's no grey line. It's a very clearly defined line that you either cross or don't cross.

Thr wood chipper now! Faster, cheaper & sets the right message to protect our children, teenagers & women!💚💚💚💚🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮😎

castration ftw

This is your news . ....

7 years only , vile

Em, am I the only one here thinking that the 'mothers' that took the money should get the same sentence too Equal rights eh 🤔

Both he and the children's mother should be put down.

Hes a dirt bag,and the mothers should be banged up as well

I am still in shock at the sentence handed down. This man received a very lenient sentence in my opinion but the mothers is a complete disgrace. She sold her child to be sexually abused which is horrific enough but, she completely destroyed any trust this child may have in future

Irish Times Journalist Tom Humpreys also Raped Children...while being a vocal critic of the Catholic Church...

Animal

“….and I ended up voting for Brexit.”

I don't see the condemnation of the 'mom's' who provided the poor innocent children from the sisterhood 🤔

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