Timmy Duggan

Timmy Duggan, a former supermarket manager who also worked in the agricultural industry, admitted he “paid money” for “obtaining a child for the purpose of ...

Duggan appeared before the court via video-link, in custody from a prison where he is being held on remand on further similar charges which he has also admitted. None of the women who profited from prostituting the children to Duggan can be named, in order to protect the identities of the children. He has also admitted that on dates between July 19th, 2015 and April 27th, 2016, at an address in Limerick, he did “encourage or knowingly cause or facilitate any activity set out in the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1988, for the purpose of distribution, publication exportation, sale or show”. The woman also admitted that, on March 20th, 2016, at an address in Kerry, she did “knowingly produce child pornography in the form of online text conversations in which the sexual assault of children was discussed with another party, for the purposes of distribution, publication exportation, sale or show”. He also pleaded guilty to paying another woman to “obtain” the same girl for the same offence, at the same location, around the same dates, and that, he did, “for sexual purposes, invited, induced, counselled or incited (the girl) to touch him” at the same location, around the same dates. He admitted paying the mother of a seven-year-old girl to use the child “for the purpose of sexual exploitation”, at an address in Kerry, on dates between the January 1st 2019 and September 29th, 2021.