An unemployed man with a masters degree in philosophy who downloaded 3,500 child pornography images in an internet cafe has been thrown a lifeline by Judge Desmond Hogan.
Mr Adrian Savage (40) from Millwood Terrace, Meath Road, Bray had his sentence adjourned until November 4th after defence counsel, Mr Brendan Grehan SC, said there was a treatment place available for him at the Granada Institute starting in September.
Judge Hogan said he was concerned about the possibility of Savage re-offending because he had started to catalogue up to 3,500 child pornographic images, 400 of which were explicit. He had downloaded the 3,500 images in a nine-month period by spending entire nights in the cafe.
Detective Sergeant Mark Kavanagh told Mr Hugo Hynes BL, prosecuting, that Savage was arrested after gardai observed him entering a cafe on Dame Street at 10 p.m. one night and not leaving until 10 a.m. the following morning.
He was stopped and produced an envelope which contained 80 child pornography images on A4 paper.
Savage pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of knowingly having child pornography in his possession on February 9th, 2002.
Judge Hogan said the idea of seeing what progress Savage made during a program of supervision didn't seem like a bad suggestion to him.