{"id":253718,"date":"2026-01-20T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/253718\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:30:07","slug":"guilty-plea-to-indecent-exposure-charge-over-incident-in-waterford-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/253718\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty plea to indecent exposure charge over incident in Waterford &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A man has pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent exposure at an in-camera hearing at Waterford Circuit Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in court before Judge Eugene O&#8217;Kelly. He was charged on two counts contrary to Section 45 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 wherein: &#8220;(1) A person who exposes his or her genitals intending to cause fear, distress or alarm to another person is guilty of an offence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The defendant pleaded guilty to committing offensive conduct of a sexual nature on a date in April 2024 at an address in Waterford, where he exposed his genitals to two separate people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Analysis<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In court, his defence barrister Brian P. O&#8217;Shea BL requested that Legal Aid be extended for a psychological analysis to be completed by a psychotherapist, stating that the report was unlikely to &#8220;take months&#8221; to complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge O&#8217;Kelly accepted the application and made a request for victim impact statements to be gathered from the injured parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man was remanded on bail and will appear for sentencing in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent exposure at an in-camera hearing at Waterford Circuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-253718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}