Guilty plea in child pornography case
Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:44A Dutch national living in West Cork has pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to possessing thousands of images of child pornography on his home computers.
55-year-old Francis Daams from 14 School Road, Durrus in West Cork, will be sentenced next February.
When he was arraigned initially before Judge Patrick Moran today, the charge on the indictment gave the number of pornographic images as 11,534 that were allegedly contained on two computers.
However, senior counsel John Edwards later asked for the indictment to be amended insofar as the precise number was concerned. The re-drafted charge did not specify the number of images.
Precise details on the number and nature of the images will be given in court when Daams is sentenced next February.
