Seanad debates
Friday, 11 December 2015
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage
10:00 am
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source
Article 2 of the EU directive obliges member states to define child pornography as: "any material that visually depicts a child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct". In other words it covers the case of any real depiction of a child. The definition also includes:
Any depiction of the sexual organs of a child for primarily sexual purposes; or
"any material that visually depicts any person appearing to be a child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct or any depiction of the sexual organs of any person appearing to be a child, for primarily sexual purposes; or
"realistic images of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct or realistic images of the sexual organs of a child, regardless of the actual existence of such child, for primarily sexual purposes".
In this context the term "a child or someone depicted as a child" is appropriate as determined by the EU directive.
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