US and Canadian authorities obtained the evidence from Dropbox, Facebook and Kik, a messenger app, the court heard. The garda alleged the girl saw children “as sexual objects that should be harmed and murdered”. She allegedly admitted to sharing it “with like-minded people online” and having child abuse ideation. Gardaí interviewed her when she was aged 14. It allegedly featured her commentary and drawings about child mutilation and dismemberment. Gardaí searched her home and recovered the handwritten diary, the court was told.ĭetective Garda Connolly described it as a journal with drawings and text about her interests in the rape, torturing and killing of prepubescent girls and infants. The material featured children, from infants to teenagers, vaginally and orally raped, sexually assaulted and suffering verbal and physical abuse by adult males. She allegedly used it to store and share child pornography with another youth in Munster who later abused another child sexually. She freely offered information about her Dropbox computer file-sharing account, he said. He said that the girl came to a Dublin garda station with her mother when she was aged 13. The girl sat silently throughout the hearing and was not required to give evidence.ĭetective Garda Cathal Connolly gave an outline of the prosecution case.
However, Judge Treasa Kelly held that it was too serious. He pleaded for her case to be kept in the Children's Court. Harrowing backgroundĭefence solicitor Eoghan O'Sullivan cited her age, “harrowing background”, and the four years it took to charge the teen. The Director of Public Prosecutions recommended she face “trial on indictment” in the Circuit Court, which can impose lengthier sentences.
She cannot be identified because of her age. The third charge is possessing the material in late 2016 in a Dropbox account for sharing.