A man who sent “depraved” sexually explicit messages to his son’s partner’s daughter has received a fully suspended one-year prison sentence.
The 72-year-old man, who cannot be identified to protect the victim's identity, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sending a sexually explicit message to a minor on an unknown date in 2018.
Judge Martin Nolan said that the content of the texts sent to the teenage girl was depraved and that the man, who was effectively her step-grandfather, should be ashamed of himself.
