December 2014
Pervert avoids prison after being convicted of possession of child abuse images
A Camlough man who pleaded guilty to a variety of child abuse imagery charges has avoided jail.
Adrian Patrick McKevitt of Old Road, Camlough pleaded guilty to a string of charges including:
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13 counts of possession of an extreme pornographic image
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7 counts of making an indecent (pseudo) photo of a child
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15 counts of possessing an indecent photograph and possession of a prohibited image of a child
McKevitt had the prohibited material in his possession on dates ranging from July 1 2011 to September 17 2012.
At the court hearing on Friday (December 5) it was ordered that 42-year-old McKevitt be subjected to a probation order for three years concurrent on all counts.
He was ordered to take part in an alcohol/drug counselling and/or treatment programme during the period of probation.
To sign the sex offenders register for a period of five years and prohibited from having any unsupervised access, association or communication with any young person under 16 years (save for inadvertent or unavoidable contact) without the approval of his Designated Risk Manager.
He was also prohibited from undertaking any activities in paid, private, voluntary or charitable capacity which affords access to children without prior notification to and approval of his Designated Risk Manager and prohibited from using any device capable of accessing the internet unless it retains and has the capacity to display the history of internet use, does not have any cleaning software installed and the defendant is able to make the device available for inspection by a police officer.
He is also prohibited from deleting the history of internet use on any device for internet access for a period of five years. It was also ordered that McKevitt’s computer and items seized be forfeited and destroyed.
