A former RTÉ Sports producer who sexually abused children online and in person in Ireland, the UK and the Philippines, has been ordered to make himself available to be assessed for a sex offenders treatment programme.
Kieran Creaven, with an address at Adelaide Street in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, pleaded guilty to ten charges and is currently serving ten years in prison
The 59-year-old filmed himself sexually abusing a young child in the Philippines seven years ago while other children, including a baby, were in the room at the time.
Creaven appeared by video link at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today to finalise the conditions for his post- release supervision.
Judge Melanie Greally directed that Creaven be supervised by the Probation Service for three years after he is released, that he obey all directions from the service and that he attend all appointments.
He must also advise probation officers of his address and of any change in his contact details.
The judge also ordered that Creaven make himself available for assessment for a Sexual Offenders Programme either in prison or upon his release.
She warned him that failure to comply with any of the conditions could result in a fine of up to €1,765 and/or up to 12 months in prison.
Creaven admitted sexually exploiting children online in Dublin, sexually assaulting and exploiting children in the Philippines and possession of child abuse imagery in the UK and Ireland.
One of the children was 13 years old, while another was in the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
Gardaí say they are still trying to identify a number of children in Ireland who were in contact online with the convicted paedophile.
They have appealed to anyone who may have been a victim, may know a victim or who has any information to contact them.
The garda investigation into the child abuse activities of Creaven began after he was arrested in Leeds, England where he went to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl.
He was in fact met by a group calling itself Predator Exposure and handed over the UK police. He subsequently pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming and attempting to engage a child in sexual activity and served nine months in prison there.
Following a meeting between the UK police and An Garda Síochána, the investigation was taken over by the Garda National Protective Services Bureau.
Creaven's home was searched and gardaí also made inquiries with Facebook, Skype, PayPal and MoneyGram.
The names and email addresses Creaven had been using emerged from searches and his admissions in UK.
Two videos of Creaven sexually abusing a child in the Philippines were found on a micro SD HD card taken from him in Leeds. One shows him abusing a girl aged between 10 and 12 on a bed in a room with a television on in the background.
The abuse occurred on 12 October 2014.
Four days later a second video is recorded of Creaven again sexually abusing the same child in the same bedroom. Exit and entry visas to and from the Philippines on his passport corresponded with the dates.
Detective Garda Johann Doyle of the Online Child Exploitation Unit said she asked Creaven to tell her about the child in the video, but he exercised his right to silence and his answer to all questions was no comment.
Twenty-one months later, in July of this year, he invited gardaí to interview him again, but gardaí were unable to identify her.
Gardaí also discovered another video of Creaven talking to a young girl on a beach in Vietnam. Creaven tried to film down the child's top.
Obscene conversations with children were also found on a HP device with Creaven talking to children in the Philippines as events unfold. In one, Creaven is giving instructions to an adult in a room with two children, to abuse the children and paid €40.
In a similar conversation on 15 October 2017, Creaven told the adult he would send them dollars when his credit card did not work.
He was also caught with obscene images of a seven and 12-year-old child on a USB key and with a video on his Samsung phone of an adult male abusing a two-year-old girl.
He used different Facebook accounts to chat with and groom children in Ireland, one was a 14-year-old boy, the other a 13-year-old girl.
He sent an abusive image to the boy and told a 16-year-old girl who was in care that he would like to meet her.
Creaven wrote a letter of apology for what he called his "abhorrent behaviour." He said he was deeply ashamed and he hopes these girls are safe.
He also apologised to his wife and family and described his arrest in Leeds in November 2017 as a good thing because it had brought him back from a dark spiral he was going down into.
Gardaí say that as a result of their investigation, six people - five children and an 18-year-old girl - have been rescued in the Philippines and taken to places of safety
