DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A judge in Ireland has sent a former Catholic priest and convicted child abuser to prison for three years for possessing child pornography, court records show.
Police said Oliver O'Grady, 66, had thousands of images of children, some victims as young as 2 years old, stored on computers and USB drives, the Irish Times reported Tuesday.
Police also found more than 6 hours of child pornography videos and more than 500 pages of online discussions about child pornography.
The case unfolded after O'Grady left his laptop on an Aer Lingus flight at Dublin's airport in February 2010 and police were alerted to its contents.
O'Grady had been deported to Ireland in 2001 after serving seven years of a 14-year prison term he received in California for abusing children.
Criminal Court Judge Martin Nolan said at sentencing that O'Grady had a serious problem and prison in America had not rehabilitated him.
He was born in Limerick and emigrated to the United States after joining the priesthood.
