As we reach the end of another week the criminal courts have heard an array of cases ranging from a Limerick man who filmed himself sexually assaulting a baby boy, to a man in his sixties who sexually pestered a 16-year-old girl during the duration of a flight from Manchester.
It won’t be pleasant reading, but here is the week in crime.
A Limerick man who admitted to filming himself carrying out “vile” sex acts on an infant boy was sentenced to six years in prison at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court with the final two years suspended.
35-year-old Jamie Marshall admitted to creating the footage and sharing it on social media platform “kik” pleaded guilty to knowingly possessing child pornography, knowingly producing child pornography, knowingly distributing child pornography; defilement of a child; and using communication technology to facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child.
He has 133 previous convictions.
Marshall had uploaded and shared 15 videos and two images of sex acts involving children, including the infant boy onto the “kik” platform, as well as images and videos of underage girls which were shared with him by another person who was not identified before the court.
Marshall had previously stated that his actions were due to cocaine use.
His debraved activity came to Garda attention after the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children alerted them.
Sentencing Judge Tom O’Donnell described Marshall’s actions as “appalling, vile, egregious, and despicable”. While the mother of the child waived her right to anonymity, Judge O’Donnell ordered
that the infant not be identified.
The mother described the custodial sentence as “an absolute joke” saying that she thinks about what was done to her little boy “everyday” and can no longer trust people.
A 61-year-old Libyan man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl on a Ryanair flight was given a suspended sentence by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Tareq Elkudir, who has an address at Hunters’ Lane, Ashbourne, Co Meath, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault on a flight between Manchester and Dublin on the 2nd of May 2022.
He was arrested on his arrival at Dublin airport.
Judge Nolan fully suspended Elkudir’s 18-month sentence saying he did not deserve to go to prison and described the victim as “unlucky”.
The teenage girl said that during the course of the flight, Elkudir had made repeated sexual advances towards her, grabbing her hand to kiss it and brushing the side of her breast on one occasion.
She described him punching her hard in her shoulder on two occasions and asking if she had a boyfriend.
Passengers on the flight described Elkudir as being highly intoxicated and drinking from the neck of a whisky bottle.
The girl described being too afraid to try and move away and that she had tried to just get through the 45 minute flight.
A male passenger sitting in the row behind had asked the girl if she was alright to which she had replied “No, this man keeps touching me.”
When informed that the girl was only 16 Elkudir replied “I don’t give a fuck” and became angry when the other passenger told him to leave the girl alone.
The court heard Elkudir has been living in Ireland for 40 years.
He submitted a letter of apology and brought 3,000 to the court as a token of remorse.
A man was sentenced to two years in jail after he falsely imprisoned, threatened, attacked and sexually assaulted his girlfriend following a row.
The man, who lives in Galway and has one previous conviction for assault, pleaded guilty before the Central Criminal Court to offences including threat to kill or causing serious harm, assault causing harm, sexual assault and false imprisonment on the 1st of August 2021.
The court heard that the couple had previously broken up in November before the assault but had reconciled some time later. The woman had been out socialising prior to the assault but had met up with the man and gone to get food before heading back to his address.
The man accused the woman of being unfaithful and amid this row brandished a knife telling her she would not leave the room alive.
The man’s mother and brother who were in the house at the time came upstairs after hearing the commotion and discovered the man putting a knife through the woman’s phone.
The woman attempted to escape the scene and fled down stairs but the man caught her and dragged her back to his room where he shut the door and barricaded it with weights.
After the woman escaped the house again after the man’s brother intervened the man pushed her down onto the ground.
She managed to leave the scene saying she would contact the Gardaí but the man got after her again and caught her, pulling her by the shoulder and demanding that she return his clothes which she was dressed in.
In a victim impact statement the woman said that she had sleepless nights after her ordeal and that while her “physical injuries have healed” the “mental injuries never will”.
The court heard that the man is remorseful of his actions and has not come to the attention of Gardaí since the incident.
Judge David Keane imposed a four-year prison sentence but suspended the final two years.