Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Offences

Harassment; threat to harm, Assault

Where

Co. Dublin

Reporting

5 reports, 15 Sep 2021 to 27 Jul 2022

Outlets

thejournal.ie, irishtimes.com, irishmirror.ie

• Teen sentenced for harassment and threat to harm in Dublin Harassment; threat to harm · Co. Dublin

  A 17-year-old boy from Dublin, whose age was reported as 18 in some accounts, used 30 to 40 online aliases to send unsolicited messages to BBC journalist Aileen Moynagh via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and email between 25 October 2020 and the end of February 2021, and travelled to Belfast within a couple of hundred yards of her workplace. The boy pleaded guilty at Dublin Children's Court in September 2021 to harassing Moynagh and to a threat to harm a female RTÉ journalist in November 2021. In July 2022, the court handed him a two-year probation supervision order for the harassment and a one-year probation bond for the threat to harm.

  Sentenced, 27 Jul 2022Victim · 4 reports
• Boy's harassment sentencing adjourned at Dublin children's court Assault · Co. Dublin

  A 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty in September 2021 to harassing BBC journalist Aileen Moynagh between 25 October 2020 and the end of February 2021 through unsolicited messages on email, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. At a pre-sentencing hearing in Dublin Children's Court on 2 November 2021, the court heard of his uncontrollable obsession with an RTÉ broadcaster and new bail conditions were imposed. Judge Paul Kelly adjourned sentencing for six weeks to allow probation and welfare reports to be prepared. Separately, a takeaway delivery driver was punched and kicked in the head in the Griffith Close area of Finglas on 1 November 2021 after it was claimed he sent text messages to a 12-year-old girl, though gardaí said they received no reports of the incident.

  In court, 2 Nov 2021Victim · 1 report

Each entry shows how that report described them.

1. 27 Jul2022
   Sentencedthejournal.ie, in Teen sentenced for harassment and threat to harm in Dublin

   Dublin teen spared sentence for online harassment of BBC journalist

   victim, Aileen Moynagh, female, irish (judged from name)Aileen Moynagh♀IE
2. 14 Dec2021
   In courtthejournal.ie, in Teen sentenced for harassment and threat to harm in Dublin

   BBC journalist tells judge how she hoped bringing 'obsessive' teen to court would 'shine light' on social media dangers

   victim, Aileen Moynagh, female, irish (judged from name)Aileen Moynagh♀IE
3. 2 Nov2021
   In courtirishtimes.com, in Boy's harassment sentencing adjourned at Dublin children's court

   Youth has ‘uncontrollable obsession’ with female RTE broadcaster, court hears

   victim, Aileen Moynagh, female, irish (judged from name)Aileen Moynagh♀IE
4. 15 Sep2021
   In courtthejournal.ie, in Teen sentenced for harassment and threat to harm in Dublin

   Obsessive Dublin teen was behind web of harassment of BBC journalist

   victim, Aileen Moynagh, female, irish (judged from name)Aileen Moynagh♀IE
5. 15 Sep2021
   In courtirishmirror.ie, in Teen sentenced for harassment and threat to harm in Dublin

   'Obsessive' boy, 17, pleads guilty to harassing BBC NI journalist

   victim, Aileen Moynagh, female, irish (judged from name)Aileen Moynagh♀IE

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