A woman prosecuted for possession of child pornography after she failed to completely delete a two-minute video sent to her on WhatsApp has received a suspended prison sentence.
Judge Pauline Codd said that in January 2018 Omo Delpin Omorouyi was the innocent recipient of a video which began innocuously.
Garnet Orange SC said his client did not know what the video was and began watching it.
When it became apparent that it was "something sinister" she stopped playing the video.
She asked the sender, who she knew only by his first name, "why are you sending me child pornography?" and told him not to text her again.
She deleted the WhatsApp message but Garda Killian Leyden told the court that the smart phone app automatically downloads images and videos to the phone once they are viewed so the video remained on the phone.
A month later gardaí carrying out an unrelated investigation went to search a house in north Dublin where the woman was living.
The woman was not the target of this operation but her phone was seized from the house during the search.
A subsequent analysis recovered the video.
Omorouyi was arrested and told gardaí she believed she had deleted the video.
The 28-year-old pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography at her home on 2 February 2018.
Mr Orange said the case showed that "any of us could find ourselves the recipient of this kind of awful material".
He said: "This stuff is flying around online. It's a case of there but for the grace of God go I."
He said his client should have reported the footage to gardaí but did not. Judge Codd noted that this is not a criminal offence.
She said the "disturbing" video showed the abuse of a very young child, but that Omorouyi had innocently received it.
She suspended a prison term of four months, noting the lack of any other convictions.
Garda Killian Leyden said that the adult in the video has since being identified as a man in Michigan in the US, and has being convicted.
