An ESB technician serving a life sentence for rape has been jailed for five years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for producing child pornography.
Gerard McCarthy (43) duped a then 16-year-old County Antrim boy into believing he could be a model so he could produce the pornographic pictures.
The now 20-year-old victim, Colm McIlrath, told the assembled media after the hearing that he had no objections to being named in reports of the case.
Judge Hogan was told McCarthy is appealing the life sentence and a 14 year term for rape and various related offences imposed last year by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.
McCarthy, from Loreto Road, Rathfarnham, pleaded guilty to knowingly producing child pornography for another person on May 23, 1999.
Judge Desmond Hogan suspended the last 12 months of McCarthy's sentence because he accepted the images were at the lower end of the scale of sexually matter but said an "aggravating factor" in the case was that it appeared he had or was about to set up a business.
Judge Hogan backdated the sentence to when McCarthy went into custody, which was February 21, 2001, and ordered that he undertake a course with the probation services for sexual offenders when he is eventually released from prison