Overview
- Dublin Circuit Criminal Court imposed a two-and-a-half-year prison term after the man coerced a 15-year-old he met on the Roblox platform in 2022.
- He threatened to leak intimate images, demanded constant calls and photo updates, controlled her movements, and insisted on watching her sleep via her phone.
- He pleaded guilty to harassment and to possessing four child sexual abuse images found on his phone after his 2024 arrest; the images did not depict the victim.
- Judge Martin Nolan identified a five-year headline sentence, reduced it to two and a half years for mitigating factors, and backdated it to November 2024.
- Gardaí intervened after a friend alerted them in November 2024, arrested the 24-year-old Slovenian national, and the court ordered 25 years of no contact while withholding his identity to protect the victim.