Serial paedophile and former RTE producer Kieran Creaven is seeking a transfer from the Midlands Prison due to issues linked to bullying in the jail.
It’s believed the 60-year-old wants to be transferred as he has not settled in and there is bullying amongst inmates at the prison in Portlaoise. A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror that Creaven, who is on the G2 landing along with other known sex offenders including depraved child rapists Michael McCarville and Seamus Marley, wants to be moved to a Dublin prison.
The source said: “A group of Eastern European criminals are believed to be bullying inmates which is causing tension in the jail. There are a lot of Eastern European criminals who are throwing their weight around and giving other inmates grief."
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“Creaven wants to be transferred to another jail but it’s unlikely to happen any time soon. The jail itself houses a lot of sex offenders and some of the country’s most dangerous criminals in the country.
“It is a far cry from the life he would have once led. One reason a move might not happen any time soon is that there are many cases of Covid-19 currently in the jail.”
Creaven, with an address at Adelaide Street in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, had pleaded guilty to ten charges when he was handed a 10-year sentence last December for sexually abusing and exploiting kids. He admitted to sexually exploiting children online in Dublin, three counts of sexually assaulting and exploiting children in the Philippines and possession of child abuse images in Ireland and the UK.
His offences were carried out over a 10-year period until he was arrested in Leeds, England, in 2017. Among his victims were a 13-year-old and another who was in the care of the Child and Family Agency, TUSLA.
During his sentencing, Judge Melanie Greally said Creaven engaged in behaviour that was “degrading in the extreme” for his vulnerable child victims, who were in some cases being abused for commercial gain. Judge Greally also said Creaven’s offending involved “different victims, different types of offences and different degrees of depravity”.
And she noted how Creaven had travelled to the Philippines in order to engage in child sexual abuse. He then engaged in the “extreme abuse” of a girl aged between 10 and 12, which he recorded and stored for three years.
Creaven will also be on the sex offenders register for life. Earlier during the hearing, Det Garda Johanna Doyle told Kerida Naidoo SC, prosecuting, that Creaven’s Dublin home was searched in 2017 when he was arrested in the UK and a number of devices were seized.
Gardai also made enquiries with online companies including Facebook, Skype and PayPal. Two videos were found on a memory card, which showed Creaven videoing himself sexually assaulting a girl between the age of 10 and 12 in the Philippines in 2014, the court heard. At times, another adult present took over the recording.
Creaven was identifiable by his “distinctive tattoos” and his face was clearly visible in parts of the videos, which were 15 minutes and six minutes long respectively, the court heard. A baby under the age of one was present on the first occasion and could be seen lying on the same bed as the child Creaven was abusing. At one point Creaven could be heard saying: “Oh God, she is beautiful”.
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