Garfield Ebbs, 46, with an address at Fairfield Green, Farranree, Cork, was sentenced to three years, with the last year suspended, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. The boy was wearing a school uniform when he first met the accused through a gay dating website. In separate offences, Ebbs admitted recording males under the door of cubicles as they were urinating or otherwise using the toilet facilities at Apple Computers at Hollyhill in Cork, Cork Airport and Blackpool shopping centre. Accused pleaded guilty on five countsNumerous counts appeared on the indictment against the accused man and he pleaded guilty to five counts on the basis that evidence would range across all counts on the indictment. He pleaded guilty to paying a woman acting as a prostitute to engage in a sexual act with him.

Source: Irish Examiner September 08, 2021 16:30 UTC