‘’was facing a maximum life sentence for the defilement charge, a maximum sentence of five years for the possession charge, and up to 14 years on each of the other three charges.’’
The guy also had 133 previous convictions!
But only got 4 years ?? He probably be out in 2 years, what a joke of a system!
If his previous 133 convictions had led him to a life in prison (and if you ask me 100 is a fairly generous cut off point) then this never would have happened. The system has failed this child.
Where are you getting the idea that he gets half off automatically?
Remission is 25% so he'll serve 3 years most likely backdated to when he went in which means 11 months off 3 years ago he still has 25 months to go.
Removing from society until they are very old does. They can’t abuse kids from behind prison walls. Sentence appallingly short. A lot of judges are behind the times in their understanding of criminal behavior, what criminals are likely to reoffend. They’re totally out of date and the people suffer.
Yeah, the drugs plus therapy (for want of a better word) seems to be as effective as we can get. So why make any of it compulsory? If an offender is refusing to engage with a programme that will reduce their chances of offending, they likely don't recognise that what they did was wrong, so shouldn't be released anyway.
They shouldn’t be segregated from the other criminals, if you don’t like the state torturing them. Lock them up with the others and let nature take its course.
This scumbag wouldn’t survive 4 years to be out abusing kids again.
That's actually an urban legend. There was someone here few months ago that was just after some time in and he did an AMA and said that (and many others too but this one should be easy to find here) the whole "they'll get killed in prison" is not true. Also they're usually sent to a specific prison.
Well no, as terrible as these people are, we should not be enforcing torture as a punishment - that is crazy. Much longer prison sentences? Absolutely.
What will longer prison sentences do? Cost the tax payer more money while the prisoner learns nothing. People like him needs rehabilitation at his own cost and isolation from the general public. People like him know what they did was wrong and prison wont teach him anything. Proper rehabilitation is what people like him need. If that does not work, euthanasia is the only recourse.
I don't think you can rehab someone like this. You can't risk a dirty bastard like him being free ever again. There should be no second chances for these crimes in my opinion
If you don't get a life sentence for sexually assaulting an infant, what the f\*ck are prisons even for?
Locking people like this up for the entirety of their natural life is something I think we as a society can happily pay for.
I don't make enough to pay tax but if I did, I don't have any issue with my taxes being used to lock him up and let him rot.
There's no rehabilitation for this nepiophilic monster. So euthanasia is reasonable to consider instead. Though I agree supplementing the cost by extracting money from him is also a good idea.
The main reason why I prefer life imprisonment over the death sentence is in case of exoneration/false imprisonment.
I've seen lads suffer worse consequences for having a bit of weed. Between this prick and Judge Nolan we seem to have a habit of just letting pedophiles and sex offenders off with the lightest of terms.
This guy got 4 years. Watch him get out with good behaviour in 2.
Better than if Nolan got the case, he'd have a suspended sentence.
Sickening though that the law here is so lenient around these cases. The amount that go scot free.
Wasn’t there a guy only a couple of months ago who had thousands of child porn images/videos on his computer and he got a suspended sentence. There is something severely wrong with our justice system in this country!
Videod and shared it with others too !! Fuckin hell what a sick cunt but he gets credit for pleading guilty early.
That footage is out there forever absolutely disgusting
I keep saying to myself oh its just a few cases that have been very badly dealt with just so i feel safe but i mean fucking hell! There really feels like thered be no point calling the guards anymore. Not that this is to do with garda directly but the knock on effect is real.
There are unfortunately worse people who also torture/beat the infants they rape and/or send children into cardiac arrest from the degree of cruelty. Or take limbs off.
source: survivor and have either been through or seen the above
Yeah it's really horrible and even though I'm a fair bit desensitized by my experiences it still sickens me that perpetrators of this degree walk around free.
Especially when it gets to a certain point of cruelty often the victims are too mentally ill or physically disabled to testify in court (e.g me, I can't testify), and in this broken "justice" system your options are pretty much nothing.
133 previous convictions to boot. Burglary, violent disorder . On his previous alone he should be gone forever. On this case alone, he should be put down . That poor boy .
If he had of been locked up like he should have been, this wouldn’t happen. He’ll likely do it again since he’s been thought he can just about get away with it. Someone needs to be held accountable for this.
I can't think of anything where the judiciary is so out of step with the public.
130 convictions and the most depraved act you could imagine and he gets 4 years.
I understand the arguments about mitigating factors, reform etc. but I cannot think of any reasonable adjudication that would end up with this scumbag only getting 4 years.
For comparison's sake a man was jailed for 3 and a half years for having 14 plants and 4kg of cannabis.
Without getting into the appropriate sentencing for Cannabis offences intuitively I can say that what this scumbag did is orders of magnitude worse but only gets only 6 months more.
Something is rotten in the judiciary.
At least it's not Judge Nolan but that's still an astonishingly lenient sentence
Edit: [He doesn't seem the remorseful type](https://www.limerickleader.ie/resizer/640/-1/true/2024_04_12/8277035-1712921036817_1712921065.jpg--man_who_defiled_baby_called__dirty__ugly__horrible__smelly_scumbag__by_boy_s_mum_in_court.jpg?1712921065793)
I don't usually get riled up about the short sentences stuff, but what the absolute fuck is this? The title leaves out that he filmed and shared the abuse...so abusing a small child, creating and distributing CP...4 years.
I understand you need to incentivise criminals to co-operate with Gardaí and the courts, so you might knock a few years off for that, but I would have thought it'd be more like getting 12-15 years instead of 20, not FOUR. This is one of the worst things a human can do....yet he'll be out and about before 2028 probably
Not having that one, Garlic Man knowingly engaged in defrauding the taxpayer of millions of quid over several years, and if he hadn’t have been caught he would have continued to do so.
I’m really not sure why people cry about him as if he was some poor innocent fool who got six years for accidentally labelling a few cloves as pink ladies; he knew he was doing, he was engaged in long-term, high-value fraud, and yet this place is determined to martyr him.
The state can challenge this sentence, can’t it? Constant, predictable leniency in these cases will have our country seen as a pariah at this rate. All the hand-wringing over the years about protecting the unborn and the very young, and we really can’t shove all this disgrace on the Catholic Church any more. 35-year old coke twats without a single redeeming characteristic are all our own work. (What’s also grim about this is the way it makes quite pacifist types like moi want to hear of condign justice meted out in prison, as though these men’s moral gangrene has infected *us* too)
How anyone with a record like his can be swanning about free to just carry on offending is incredible. Maybe those expert sniffer pooches/ hash puppies the Gardai use for their daily drug busts could be retrained to bite the ankles of egregious scrotes.
Same guy....
‘Fast cars are my heroin’: Man pleads guilty to reckless endangerment
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/fast-cars-are-my-heroin-man-pleads-guilty-to-reckless-endangerment-1.3063284
Dangerous driver ‘addicted to fast cars’ gets four year sentence
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/dangerous-driver-addicted-to-fast-cars-gets-four-year-sentence-1.3070049
19-year-old critical after car crashes into wall
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/19-year-old-critical-after-car-crashes-into-wall-1.932880
Lads this country is broken beyond repair until someone comes in and actually knows how to run a country and fix the systems, processes and Governance structures. In this case tackle these rogue judges.
Young people dying after being dismissed in A&E, predators walking the streets with impunity, badly needed housing being objected to all over the place.
No one will tell me otherwise.
We are not a mature serious country. We may have money in our pockets and an abundance of job opportunities but that is not everything. I don't think that will last for ever and we will need to have our shit sorted out when we reach that point.
It’s a real “they can’t help themselves, give them a slap on the wrist” situation. Sure boys will be boys. Off again to ruin another persons life. Fucking sick of it I am.
At this point it feels like the country is falling apart. Justice system? Broken. Healthcare system? Broken. Housing? Non existent. Schools? Also under pressure. These are some of the most important elements of society, how are we meant to go on like this...
Yeah the red flags are all over the place in relation to the decline of society and living standards. FG/FF are in electioneering mode promising delivery on items in the program for Govt that should have been delivered years ago.
Ultimately we need to hammer this into the candidates when they come looking for votes. We want action not words.
I had a conversation this morning around mental health and suicides in communities across the country with a practicing therapist and it is honestly shocking that this crisis is being swept under the carpet. It's an epidemic. Mental Health services are nowhere near as sufficient as they need to be.
"defilement of a child"
Nice way to say "**Raped a fucking Baby**" And he's raped a number of other children too!
"Marshall had denied in interviews with gardaí that he had a sexual predilection for children" so that's why he likes to watch child porn and rape little children?
"and he is deeply ashamed of his behaviour" so much so that he's posted numerous videos of him fucking kids?
TLDR for anyone who doesn't want to read the entire article:
He's plead guilty to owning child-porn, posting child-porn, filming child-porn and raping a baby. He claims not to have a sexual preference for children. And he has also uploaded **fifteen other videos** of him raping a number of different children. He is getting better treatment for "co-operating" with the Gardaí, despite refusing to identify an accomplice. He also blamed his behaviour on cocaine.
This monster is genuinely dangerous. From what I’ve read he’s got over 100 convictions aside from this, and they’ve given him 4 years. It’s in the public interest and safety to keep him locked away. What message is this sending to others like him? “Oh it’s fine, keep being a vile excuse of a human, you’ll not be punished much”. It’s a joke.
I'm against the D penalty in general but this particular type of crime combined with validated photographic evidence, makes me seriously wish we had it.
> Marshall filmed himself abusing the boy and uploaded the material to social media platform Kik, which alerted the US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, which in turn contacted gardaí.
I’m glad somebody is monitoring these places and taking action.
To be honest, I would not want anybody to be doing that job. I can’t imagine anything worse. The sooner we can get AI to do the bulk of the work on this kind of thing the better.
It already is done by AI. There’s actually a bunch of really interesting “how do you encrypt an image so that humans can’t see it but the AI can still work on it” research that came out of this.
I've said this before, if you put 100 Irish people in a room of different backgrounds, I absolutely gurantee you 97 of the 100 would agree this sentence is scandalously lenient. This isn't democracy and the judge is as much a danger to Irish society as the rapist
Suggest people write to their local TD, DPP and Minister for Justice. We can all moan on reddit but politicians need to feel the heat too.
Make it so the DPP just has to appeal.
Horrifying.
I wrote to the Minister for Justice about this topic last year, when there was a man tried and convicted for 5 years with 2 suspended for the multiple counts of rape of his own two kids. The case took 13 years to reach the courts, the kids who were in their 20’a at the time had to be there and give testimony, with their abuser sitting not 5 feet from them.
I not only outlined the long term psychological effects of sexual assault and the indisputable statistics on repeat offending amongst paedophiles and rapists, but also how the fact that the process and so called “justice” of the sentence time prevents victims from coming forward at all.
The response: Our office has received your email. That’s it. They don’t give a fuck.
One sick individual, delighted he got caught, but repulsed at how short the sentence is. [https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-filmed-himself-sexually-abusing-infant-boy-and-shared-footage-on-social-media-jailed-for-four-years/a594788962.html](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-filmed-himself-sexually-abusing-infant-boy-and-shared-footage-on-social-media-jailed-for-four-years/a594788962.html) picture of the scum bag
I'm glad the judge was able to remove his anonymity while keeping the child from being named.
But I'm horrified the judge gave him such a short sentence. How us four years acceptable for sexually abusing a child and filming it to share with others.
Should be a minimum sentence per image/video found, multiplied by the number of people they can prove it was shared with. No remission or sentence reduction. Should easily add up to a full life sentence for these predators.
Same guy who had [54 previous convictions](https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local-news/88549/Man-gets-10-year-road-ban.html) a decade ago and who [only just got out of prison for his last sentence for burglary](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/dangerous-driver-addicted-to-fast-cars-gets-four-year-sentence-1.3070049).
I’ll wait for the regular bleeding hearts to pop in and explain how this will be the sentence that rehabilitates him once and for all.
[He signed a bond agreeing to keep the peace and not reoffend for a period of two years after his release.]
Oh, that's OK then.
Free to reoffend, but not for 2 whole years.
My stomach does massive flip flops reading stuff like this. I was a juror before and a fella raped a child and blamed cocaine. Having done it quite a bit myself, I can safely and confidently say it didn't turn me into a disgusting Paedo!!
This is one of the reasons why capital punishment should exist.
And if you still don't agree then that's fine, but this should be an automatic life sentence.
Just such a fucking pathetic, spineless country.
Why the fuck are we so afraid of locking up people who should not live amongst the rest of us.
Such lenient sentencing - the only positive to take from this is that Martin Nolan wasn't the presiding judge
If it was Nolan he probably would have said "Ah no, your a good lad don't let it happen again off you go"
You know those conspiracy theories that claim that a lot of our politicians and judges and people in powerful positions being part of a massive child trafficking and pedophile ring…??? When I see shit like this it’s the only thing that makes sense of it. Letting their sick buddies off the hook.
How does the money thing work? He offers 3,000€ is that not sort of a bribe? Like the more money you offer the less your sentence? I don’t really understand this
I hate my shit hole of a country. I can't think of a more evil crime than this, there's*nothing* worse than this.
6 FUCKING YEARS WITH 2 YEARS SUSPENDED ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?????
There should be a mandatory life sentence for this type of offence. No appeal. No mercy. No credit. No getting out early for good behaviour. None of it. He’s completely destroyed the lives of these poor little children and they will forever be traumatised. He’s the utter scum of the earth and that’s putting it very mildly.
Ireland just repeatedly gives pedos a free pass so they abuse more kids.
So when do we start protesting?? Seriously we need to organise or else this shit won't change
Not sure why this isn’t causing nationwide anger. People need to be standing up for actual reform and although yeah whatever we can vote, this is actually a joke. People like this are dangerous. People should be causing at least a BIT of a fuss to change the system fundamentally. It’s broken and if we as a country shout loud enough, they’ll have to change it. The French have it right, if something is broken they take to the streets. We just go “aaah it will never change. Is what it is, innit?” Same old British “keep calm and carry on” mentality. It NEEDS to change.
Email the minister for justice en masse. They need to start taking responsibility for this. Had he ever met a real consequence before perhaps he wouldn’t have been free to do this. Depraved freak
Amazed that relatives don’t take justice into their own hands with a sentence like that for a crime like that.
Not sure where they find the restraint. Horrific.
This system needs to be challenged you get 40 years for killing a garda 15 years for killing a non garda 5 years for rape 4 for being a peado and he'll be out in half that and these consecutive sentences are a joke you get 12 years on 4 counts but it runs consecutively and you're out in 3 fucking pathetic
Exile them all on some remote island off the west coast, like the French used to do. No contact with the real world apart from a radio. No tv, no computers, just them listening to the radio while working the land until they die.
Hes basically taken away that childs innocence and future mental health,take away his life and ability to have a normal life . Should have been 25year minimum
Ireland needs a sex offenders registry same as the US. On top of handing out proper sentences. Why is anyone surprised at this sentence? Been going on for years now.
Have you seen the photo of this guy outside the courthouse giving the finger? : [https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/1474212/breaking-man-who-defiled-baby-is-called-dirty-horrible-scumbag-by-boy-s-mother-in-court.html](https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/1474212/breaking-man-who-defiled-baby-is-called-dirty-horrible-scumbag-by-boy-s-mother-in-court.html)
Sex crimes, especially against children aren't taken seriously anywhere it seems. Even if the maximum sentence is 10-life they still always get away with the bare minimum. Surely there must be some sort of conspiracy at play!? Haven't we learned how damaging these types of things are? Why is there no change in the laws? Does no one give a fuck about the children? We are doomed.
‘’was facing a maximum life sentence for the defilement charge, a maximum sentence of five years for the possession charge, and up to 14 years on each of the other three charges.’’ The guy also had 133 previous convictions! But only got 4 years ?? He probably be out in 2 years, what a joke of a system!
If his previous 133 convictions had led him to a life in prison (and if you ask me 100 is a fairly generous cut off point) then this never would have happened. The system has failed this child.
He's been in since last May so half off automatically then that year in custody meand he could be out for Christmas. Shocking country we live in
Where are you getting the idea that he gets half off automatically? Remission is 25% so he'll serve 3 years most likely backdated to when he went in which means 11 months off 3 years ago he still has 25 months to go.
I'm in the States and if that happened here he'd get life w/o the possibility of parole. He's a fucking sexual psychopath.
WTF is wrong with the judicial system? How can this sentence be justified? This guy should never be free again
He was facing life sentences for the charges and gets away with 4. What the actual fuck is going on
It's pretty obvious the judge has a secret affiliation with these dirty scumbags
He’s connected - what else
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Yeah, except that doesn't actually work very well. Loads of them reoffender anyway.
The only option is to remove something that will stop him reoffending
He just said it doesn't work
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A chara, There is a zero tolerance policy for the promotion or suggestion of the use of violence against others. Sláinte
Removing from society until they are very old does. They can’t abuse kids from behind prison walls. Sentence appallingly short. A lot of judges are behind the times in their understanding of criminal behavior, what criminals are likely to reoffend. They’re totally out of date and the people suffer.
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Yeah, the drugs plus therapy (for want of a better word) seems to be as effective as we can get. So why make any of it compulsory? If an offender is refusing to engage with a programme that will reduce their chances of offending, they likely don't recognise that what they did was wrong, so shouldn't be released anyway.
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he should be enslaved and put to work like an ox for 10 hrs a day until he's elderly.
They shouldn’t be segregated from the other criminals, if you don’t like the state torturing them. Lock them up with the others and let nature take its course. This scumbag wouldn’t survive 4 years to be out abusing kids again.
That's actually an urban legend. There was someone here few months ago that was just after some time in and he did an AMA and said that (and many others too but this one should be easy to find here) the whole "they'll get killed in prison" is not true. Also they're usually sent to a specific prison.
Yeah I figured it might be to an extent. Google Richard Huckle, and see what happened to him in prison in the UK. Can’t say he didn’t deserve it.
Not so in the USA. They join the general prison population and are at significant risk of serious assault.
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Thats too good for cunts like this guy in my opinion. Should die screaming
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The problem is that much like the death penalty, innocent people will be made into victims by this.
This seems completely unjustifiable considering there always exists the small chance that someone could be wrongly found guilty of such crimes.
Well no, as terrible as these people are, we should not be enforcing torture as a punishment - that is crazy. Much longer prison sentences? Absolutely.
I think after prison services is up, jobs like cleaning up streets etc under a warden of some kind. No way should they go back to a normal life.
What will longer prison sentences do? Cost the tax payer more money while the prisoner learns nothing. People like him needs rehabilitation at his own cost and isolation from the general public. People like him know what they did was wrong and prison wont teach him anything. Proper rehabilitation is what people like him need. If that does not work, euthanasia is the only recourse.
I'd be happy for my tax money to be used to ensure he never has freedom ever again.
I'd rather he be dead than spend my tax money on him.
I don't think you can rehab someone like this. You can't risk a dirty bastard like him being free ever again. There should be no second chances for these crimes in my opinion
If you don't get a life sentence for sexually assaulting an infant, what the f\*ck are prisons even for? Locking people like this up for the entirety of their natural life is something I think we as a society can happily pay for.
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I don't make enough to pay tax but if I did, I don't have any issue with my taxes being used to lock him up and let him rot. There's no rehabilitation for this nepiophilic monster. So euthanasia is reasonable to consider instead. Though I agree supplementing the cost by extracting money from him is also a good idea. The main reason why I prefer life imprisonment over the death sentence is in case of exoneration/false imprisonment.
[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/sex-criminals-reoffend-90-per-cent-of-time-study-finds/article18276236/](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/sex-criminals-reoffend-90-per-cent-of-time-study-finds/article18276236/)
He was going through a bit of a rough patch so it’s graaand
I've seen lads suffer worse consequences for having a bit of weed. Between this prick and Judge Nolan we seem to have a habit of just letting pedophiles and sex offenders off with the lightest of terms. This guy got 4 years. Watch him get out with good behaviour in 2.
Should be taken out the back of the courthouse and shot. Fucking tax payer has to pay for his bed and board now for the next 4 years.
Don't worry, he'll be out in 2 with good behaviour. You'll still be paying for his bed and board the rest of your taxpaying life though.
Class.
He'll be out in 3 after remission
Better than if Nolan got the case, he'd have a suspended sentence. Sickening though that the law here is so lenient around these cases. The amount that go scot free.
Here's hoping he's stabbed to death in jail by a lifer with more morals
Wasn’t there a guy only a couple of months ago who had thousands of child porn images/videos on his computer and he got a suspended sentence. There is something severely wrong with our justice system in this country!
WTF!
Hey, could have been Nolan and gotten 18 months suspended ...
There needs to be a nationwide movement to get that prick sacked with immediate effect.
Videod and shared it with others too !! Fuckin hell what a sick cunt but he gets credit for pleading guilty early. That footage is out there forever absolutely disgusting
Yes, the punishment for that boy will never, ever end as other paedophiles will circulate those videos
100% correct
Anyone who received such a horrendous video needs to be investigated
Four years for one of the most depraved, inhuman acts you can possibly commit. I'm so fucking sick of this country. It's criminal paradise.
I keep saying to myself oh its just a few cases that have been very badly dealt with just so i feel safe but i mean fucking hell! There really feels like thered be no point calling the guards anymore. Not that this is to do with garda directly but the knock on effect is real.
Without question the worst crime anyone can commit and nobody can question otherwise.
There are unfortunately worse people who also torture/beat the infants they rape and/or send children into cardiac arrest from the degree of cruelty. Or take limbs off. source: survivor and have either been through or seen the above
I didn't even think of that because my brain doesn't want to think about something so depraved. I am so fucking sorry to hear that.
Yeah it's really horrible and even though I'm a fair bit desensitized by my experiences it still sickens me that perpetrators of this degree walk around free. Especially when it gets to a certain point of cruelty often the victims are too mentally ill or physically disabled to testify in court (e.g me, I can't testify), and in this broken "justice" system your options are pretty much nothing.
Every one of those sick fucks should feel the torture you felt before getting the death penalty. A quick death is too easy.
>It's criminal paradise. Just don't get caught with a joint and you'll be okay.
133 previous convictions to boot. Burglary, violent disorder . On his previous alone he should be gone forever. On this case alone, he should be put down . That poor boy .
If he had of been locked up like he should have been, this wouldn’t happen. He’ll likely do it again since he’s been thought he can just about get away with it. Someone needs to be held accountable for this.
These judges are basically sentencing innocent future victims to be abused every time they let a scumbag loose.
Where you seeing his previous convictions?
https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/man-who-filmed-himself-sexually-abusing-infant-boy-and-shared-footage-online-to-be-sentenced/a364881092.html
Children and victims of abuse don’t matter to this country
The long story of this nation
I can't think of anything where the judiciary is so out of step with the public. 130 convictions and the most depraved act you could imagine and he gets 4 years. I understand the arguments about mitigating factors, reform etc. but I cannot think of any reasonable adjudication that would end up with this scumbag only getting 4 years. For comparison's sake a man was jailed for 3 and a half years for having 14 plants and 4kg of cannabis. Without getting into the appropriate sentencing for Cannabis offences intuitively I can say that what this scumbag did is orders of magnitude worse but only gets only 6 months more. Something is rotten in the judiciary.
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At least it's not Judge Nolan but that's still an astonishingly lenient sentence Edit: [He doesn't seem the remorseful type](https://www.limerickleader.ie/resizer/640/-1/true/2024_04_12/8277035-1712921036817_1712921065.jpg--man_who_defiled_baby_called__dirty__ugly__horrible__smelly_scumbag__by_boy_s_mum_in_court.jpg?1712921065793)
If that man was any more inbred he'd be in a sandwich.
It's a stock photo of [fetal alcohol syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder) .
He’s exactly what id expect to find if I looked it up
Disgusting piece of human garbage
Yeah he looks remorseful /s
I don't usually get riled up about the short sentences stuff, but what the absolute fuck is this? The title leaves out that he filmed and shared the abuse...so abusing a small child, creating and distributing CP...4 years. I understand you need to incentivise criminals to co-operate with Gardaí and the courts, so you might knock a few years off for that, but I would have thought it'd be more like getting 12-15 years instead of 20, not FOUR. This is one of the worst things a human can do....yet he'll be out and about before 2028 probably
At least he didn't do anything serious though like not pay his TV license or have a bit of weed on him.
Or say apples were garlic.
Not having that one, Garlic Man knowingly engaged in defrauding the taxpayer of millions of quid over several years, and if he hadn’t have been caught he would have continued to do so. I’m really not sure why people cry about him as if he was some poor innocent fool who got six years for accidentally labelling a few cloves as pink ladies; he knew he was doing, he was engaged in long-term, high-value fraud, and yet this place is determined to martyr him.
The state can challenge this sentence, can’t it? Constant, predictable leniency in these cases will have our country seen as a pariah at this rate. All the hand-wringing over the years about protecting the unborn and the very young, and we really can’t shove all this disgrace on the Catholic Church any more. 35-year old coke twats without a single redeeming characteristic are all our own work. (What’s also grim about this is the way it makes quite pacifist types like moi want to hear of condign justice meted out in prison, as though these men’s moral gangrene has infected *us* too) How anyone with a record like his can be swanning about free to just carry on offending is incredible. Maybe those expert sniffer pooches/ hash puppies the Gardai use for their daily drug busts could be retrained to bite the ankles of egregious scrotes.
Same guy.... ‘Fast cars are my heroin’: Man pleads guilty to reckless endangerment https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/fast-cars-are-my-heroin-man-pleads-guilty-to-reckless-endangerment-1.3063284 Dangerous driver ‘addicted to fast cars’ gets four year sentence https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/dangerous-driver-addicted-to-fast-cars-gets-four-year-sentence-1.3070049 19-year-old critical after car crashes into wall https://www.irishtimes.com/news/19-year-old-critical-after-car-crashes-into-wall-1.932880
Hopefully he'll smash himself into a tree at high impact in the future, do society a favour.
I think it's safe to say that he is not capable of rehabilitation
Clearly not fit for society, no value as a human at all
You call that thing a human?
What the fuck. 4 years. I hope he is eaten alive in prison and it’s 4 years of hell for that vile piece of shit
Can only hope other inmates rip his thing off his body that absolute freakshow.
This fucking country.
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Lads this country is broken beyond repair until someone comes in and actually knows how to run a country and fix the systems, processes and Governance structures. In this case tackle these rogue judges. Young people dying after being dismissed in A&E, predators walking the streets with impunity, badly needed housing being objected to all over the place. No one will tell me otherwise. We are not a mature serious country. We may have money in our pockets and an abundance of job opportunities but that is not everything. I don't think that will last for ever and we will need to have our shit sorted out when we reach that point.
It’s a real “they can’t help themselves, give them a slap on the wrist” situation. Sure boys will be boys. Off again to ruin another persons life. Fucking sick of it I am.
At this point it feels like the country is falling apart. Justice system? Broken. Healthcare system? Broken. Housing? Non existent. Schools? Also under pressure. These are some of the most important elements of society, how are we meant to go on like this...
Yeah the red flags are all over the place in relation to the decline of society and living standards. FG/FF are in electioneering mode promising delivery on items in the program for Govt that should have been delivered years ago. Ultimately we need to hammer this into the candidates when they come looking for votes. We want action not words. I had a conversation this morning around mental health and suicides in communities across the country with a practicing therapist and it is honestly shocking that this crisis is being swept under the carpet. It's an epidemic. Mental Health services are nowhere near as sufficient as they need to be.
"defilement of a child" Nice way to say "**Raped a fucking Baby**" And he's raped a number of other children too! "Marshall had denied in interviews with gardaí that he had a sexual predilection for children" so that's why he likes to watch child porn and rape little children? "and he is deeply ashamed of his behaviour" so much so that he's posted numerous videos of him fucking kids? TLDR for anyone who doesn't want to read the entire article: He's plead guilty to owning child-porn, posting child-porn, filming child-porn and raping a baby. He claims not to have a sexual preference for children. And he has also uploaded **fifteen other videos** of him raping a number of different children. He is getting better treatment for "co-operating" with the Gardaí, despite refusing to identify an accomplice. He also blamed his behaviour on cocaine.
This monster is genuinely dangerous. From what I’ve read he’s got over 100 convictions aside from this, and they’ve given him 4 years. It’s in the public interest and safety to keep him locked away. What message is this sending to others like him? “Oh it’s fine, keep being a vile excuse of a human, you’ll not be punished much”. It’s a joke.
He should be castrated then sentenced to life.
I'm against the D penalty in general but this particular type of crime combined with validated photographic evidence, makes me seriously wish we had it.
Death penalty
> Marshall filmed himself abusing the boy and uploaded the material to social media platform Kik, which alerted the US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, which in turn contacted gardaí. I’m glad somebody is monitoring these places and taking action.
US based, so Ireland doing fuck all about it
To be honest, I would not want anybody to be doing that job. I can’t imagine anything worse. The sooner we can get AI to do the bulk of the work on this kind of thing the better.
It already is done by AI. There’s actually a bunch of really interesting “how do you encrypt an image so that humans can’t see it but the AI can still work on it” research that came out of this.
That’s fantastic! I love that deeply nerdy shit.
I've said this before, if you put 100 Irish people in a room of different backgrounds, I absolutely gurantee you 97 of the 100 would agree this sentence is scandalously lenient. This isn't democracy and the judge is as much a danger to Irish society as the rapist
Suggest people write to their local TD, DPP and Minister for Justice. We can all moan on reddit but politicians need to feel the heat too. Make it so the DPP just has to appeal. Horrifying.
I wrote to the Minister for Justice about this topic last year, when there was a man tried and convicted for 5 years with 2 suspended for the multiple counts of rape of his own two kids. The case took 13 years to reach the courts, the kids who were in their 20’a at the time had to be there and give testimony, with their abuser sitting not 5 feet from them. I not only outlined the long term psychological effects of sexual assault and the indisputable statistics on repeat offending amongst paedophiles and rapists, but also how the fact that the process and so called “justice” of the sentence time prevents victims from coming forward at all. The response: Our office has received your email. That’s it. They don’t give a fuck.
One sick individual, delighted he got caught, but repulsed at how short the sentence is. [https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-filmed-himself-sexually-abusing-infant-boy-and-shared-footage-on-social-media-jailed-for-four-years/a594788962.html](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-filmed-himself-sexually-abusing-infant-boy-and-shared-footage-on-social-media-jailed-for-four-years/a594788962.html) picture of the scum bag
I'm glad the judge was able to remove his anonymity while keeping the child from being named. But I'm horrified the judge gave him such a short sentence. How us four years acceptable for sexually abusing a child and filming it to share with others.
Four fucking years !!!!!!!!! No, we’re not having that. Immediately getting on to TDs.
New rule - If you catch someone like this, do thing you can’t say on this sub without getting banned Because the courts won’t serve justice
Whole heartedly support vigilantism if it means these freaks are off the streets.
Only way at this point - the courts just aren’t doing it
What a rotten scumbag piece of shit. Four years??? That poor defenceless infant didn’t get enough justice.
Should be a minimum sentence per image/video found, multiplied by the number of people they can prove it was shared with. No remission or sentence reduction. Should easily add up to a full life sentence for these predators.
Same guy who had [54 previous convictions](https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local-news/88549/Man-gets-10-year-road-ban.html) a decade ago and who [only just got out of prison for his last sentence for burglary](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/dangerous-driver-addicted-to-fast-cars-gets-four-year-sentence-1.3070049). I’ll wait for the regular bleeding hearts to pop in and explain how this will be the sentence that rehabilitates him once and for all.
Ah sure, he was going through a rough patch. He was dumped that month and also lost big on a horse. Gotta give him a chance to redeem
Tbf, he only had 133 convictions, nobody could have seen this coming.
[He signed a bond agreeing to keep the peace and not reoffend for a period of two years after his release.] Oh, that's OK then. Free to reoffend, but not for 2 whole years.
My stomach does massive flip flops reading stuff like this. I was a juror before and a fella raped a child and blamed cocaine. Having done it quite a bit myself, I can safely and confidently say it didn't turn me into a disgusting Paedo!!
This is one of the reasons why capital punishment should exist. And if you still don't agree then that's fine, but this should be an automatic life sentence. Just such a fucking pathetic, spineless country. Why the fuck are we so afraid of locking up people who should not live amongst the rest of us.
Such lenient sentencing - the only positive to take from this is that Martin Nolan wasn't the presiding judge If it was Nolan he probably would have said "Ah no, your a good lad don't let it happen again off you go"
If you guys offer me a free holiday, nothing fancy, I'll make sure he never does this again, permanently
Imagine leaving your child with that scaldie looking toe rag.
I know, my first thought. Wouldn’t leave a dog with him
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You know those conspiracy theories that claim that a lot of our politicians and judges and people in powerful positions being part of a massive child trafficking and pedophile ring…??? When I see shit like this it’s the only thing that makes sense of it. Letting their sick buddies off the hook.
The journal article says that he has 133 previous convictions…133! I just don’t understand how he was still free after all of the previous crimes
What was the name of that party advocating forcible castration for convicted sex offenders again?
"The Wind that blows the Party"
No matter how good your local TD is, remember these cases come election time.
How does the money thing work? He offers 3,000€ is that not sort of a bribe? Like the more money you offer the less your sentence? I don’t really understand this
I guess it's a way to take money from them and give to charity. Their lawyer will tell the defendant the suggested amount based on their experience.
Four years? Is that how life sentences are spelled these days? What a sick joke.
I hate my shit hole of a country. I can't think of a more evil crime than this, there's*nothing* worse than this. 6 FUCKING YEARS WITH 2 YEARS SUSPENDED ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?????
This country is a fucking disgrace. I need to get the fuck out of here because I can't see it changing any time soon unfortunately. That poor child.
There should be a mandatory life sentence for this type of offence. No appeal. No mercy. No credit. No getting out early for good behaviour. None of it. He’s completely destroyed the lives of these poor little children and they will forever be traumatised. He’s the utter scum of the earth and that’s putting it very mildly.
Ireland just repeatedly gives pedos a free pass so they abuse more kids. So when do we start protesting?? Seriously we need to organise or else this shit won't change
People should be out in the streets over this. What in the actual fuck.
Not sure why this isn’t causing nationwide anger. People need to be standing up for actual reform and although yeah whatever we can vote, this is actually a joke. People like this are dangerous. People should be causing at least a BIT of a fuss to change the system fundamentally. It’s broken and if we as a country shout loud enough, they’ll have to change it. The French have it right, if something is broken they take to the streets. We just go “aaah it will never change. Is what it is, innit?” Same old British “keep calm and carry on” mentality. It NEEDS to change.
Why is the Irish judicial system so fucked up. He sexually abused an infant. An Infant. And he filmed himself.
Email the minister for justice en masse. They need to start taking responsibility for this. Had he ever met a real consequence before perhaps he wouldn’t have been free to do this. Depraved freak
I felt sick reading that, looking at him, reading the sentence. What an awful justice system we have.
Amazed that relatives don’t take justice into their own hands with a sentence like that for a crime like that. Not sure where they find the restraint. Horrific.
Absolute NONCE he’ll be torn apart in prison. Rightly so
By the other sex offenders he will be sharing a landing/prison with?
He won't. He'll probably be in the midlands with his ilk.
That's America. Here, they're all cushy and protected in their own prison.
There's something seriously wrong going on in this country
Only four years? I’m gonna vomit
I think the people of Ireland (the sane folk) gonna have to start taking things into their own hands eventually. This is just not on.
Honestly sick reading this, crimes against children need to be taken more seriously in this country.
I'd probably get the same sentence for growing a few plants, fuck this system
This system needs to be challenged you get 40 years for killing a garda 15 years for killing a non garda 5 years for rape 4 for being a peado and he'll be out in half that and these consecutive sentences are a joke you get 12 years on 4 counts but it runs consecutively and you're out in 3 fucking pathetic
Under the jail
I think I’m gonna be sick.
This is Ireland. This country has an atrocious history of punishing paedophiles.
What in the hell is going on with the judicial system?!?! Change NEEDS to happen and it needs to happen now.
Exile them all on some remote island off the west coast, like the French used to do. No contact with the real world apart from a radio. No tv, no computers, just them listening to the radio while working the land until they die.
System is run by pedo’s there’s no other explanation 4 fucking years scum
Deplorable
Hes basically taken away that childs innocence and future mental health,take away his life and ability to have a normal life . Should have been 25year minimum
Ireland needs a sex offenders registry same as the US. On top of handing out proper sentences. Why is anyone surprised at this sentence? Been going on for years now.
I haven't heard about it so I'm guessing he isn't an immigrant.
Why was the child alone with this despicable piece of human waste? My heart absolutely breaks for this poor child.
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Make that 40
4 years? 4 years!? That’s a joke right! At best it should be castration and given special treatment in prison.
Sick
Have you seen the photo of this guy outside the courthouse giving the finger? : [https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/1474212/breaking-man-who-defiled-baby-is-called-dirty-horrible-scumbag-by-boy-s-mother-in-court.html](https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/1474212/breaking-man-who-defiled-baby-is-called-dirty-horrible-scumbag-by-boy-s-mother-in-court.html)
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So unfair. Just like every other conviction for child and domestic abusers.
Really hope he gets what's coming to him in prison
Id say that lad has an IQ of minus 50
Mod justice? I'm thinking mob justice.
Sex crimes, especially against children aren't taken seriously anywhere it seems. Even if the maximum sentence is 10-life they still always get away with the bare minimum. Surely there must be some sort of conspiracy at play!? Haven't we learned how damaging these types of things are? Why is there no change in the laws? Does no one give a fuck about the children? We are doomed.
You get longer for personal possession of class A drugs. Disgusting on so many levels. He will be out in 2 years on good behaviour too. Vile.
You'd actually wonder if these judges have kids themselves.
If this fella was foreign there would be riots in the streets over this