Woman who “pimped” daughter to perverts online avoids jail

February 7, 2025

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5 min

If you read the news often enough, you’re aware that the Irish courts often let those found in possession of child sex abuse material walk free.

Imagine being a Garda investigator who has to watch the material those animals take pleasure in in order to build a case against them, only to see them let off without jail time.

Images of real kids being raped, degraded, exploited. The sickening fact is that if there was no demand for such evil, would there be a supply? 

Letting this depravity off with a light sentence happens over and over in the Irish courts, and as Gript previously reported, a large part of it is down to the judgement discussed in this article. 

In this article, however, I’ll focus on a person who generated images of child sexual abuse of her own daughter.

This woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – plied the little girl (aged 8 at the time) with alcohol and made her, in the words of Judge Connolly, partake in “live contact with men on a video feed, which involved very graphic live content”.

Essentially this woman pimped her young child out to men online where, at least on some occasions, the child’s top was lifted up so the “men” could see her body and her genitals were also exposed. 

Sick. Vile. Evil. 

What punishment would be fitting for the viewers? In my mind I picture a deep hole in the ground where they are left exposed to the elements to let nature take its course. 

The woman entered a guilty plea to charges of causing a child to watch sexual activity and sexual exploitation of a child. A further charge of child cruelty is to be “taken into consideration” according to the court report of Longford Live. 

“A total of 961 videos were recovered from the phone of the accused, with a significant number of those involving highly sexual conduct.” it reported. 

As is often the case with charges laid against an individual during a criminal trial, the wording of the charge does not communicate the details of what exactly the victim is alleged to have been subjected to.

To rob a defenceless child of their innocence is a crime so heinous that I find it difficult to imagine an appropriate punishment. Needless to say, a suspended sentence wouldn’t fit the bill.

 As adults we often look back on our childhood’s with feelings of nostalgia: Everyone likes to see clips of Bosco or Dustin the turkey which remind us of who we once were, and a life that was free of many of the cares and responsibilities that follow us through adulthood.  

What will this little girl have to look back on? The abuse she was subjected to between April 2020, and February 2021? 

When I think about parts of my own childhood, my biggest worry was not making it home in time for Pokémon, or failing to practice enough for Friday’s spelling tests. 

There were much bigger issues at play as well, but I did my best to ignore those and focus on what was pleasant and stable. Kids tend to be resilient after all. 

Some childhoods are idyllic, where days are spent playing with friends – or like I did – exploring the great outdoors with my dog, Jerry. 

Bad things can also happen to children. Things like bullying, sickness, or loss. 

You may have heard stories of kids who had an angry or distant parent at home, and how this made their lives harder than they ought to have been as children, but to think that a parent – a mother – would abuse her little daughter in the ways described in this case may not have entered your mind before. 

I find it difficult to use the word “mother” to describe this woman who so utterly betrayed the little girl in question. 

The word “mother” carries such a weight of affection for many of us. Maybe that’s why the Irish people figuratively lost the plot when the previous government attempted to have us remove the word from our Constitution. 

Now that you know that the woman is the child’s mother, perhaps I can move away from describing her as such, but I digress. 

Despite Judge Connolly describing the woman’s conduct as “utterly criminal,” he handed down a three year prison sentence which he then suspended for five years. 

The court heard that the woman is “at an extremely low range of intellectual functioning” and has shown signs of “evidence of sexual deviancy”.

It was also stated that she has her own history of sexual abuse. 

I’ve heard colleagues in media frustratedly say, “What do you have to do to go to jail in this country,”? 

You’d think that sexually exploiting a child would be a sure fire way, but it isn’t. 

In many ways it feels as though the previous government put much more focus on trying to ban unauthorized political opinions than it did on trying to protect children and punish predators, be they producers or consumers of child sex abuse material. 

We seem to have a deep problem with political priorities in this country, and children are suffering as a result.