{"id":410208,"date":"2026-04-21T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:28:12","slug":"paedophiles-appeal-rejected-as-judge-refuses-to-name-former-td-who-gave-character-reference-for-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410208\/","title":{"rendered":"Paedophile\u2019s appeal rejected as judge refuses to name former TD who gave character reference for sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Judge Edwards last week criticised a TD for praising Daniel Ramamoorthy\u2019s \u2018previous good name\u2019 while ignoring the victim and the \u2018vile\u2019 and \u2018horrifying nature\u2019 of the crimesFianna F\u00e1il leader Miche\u00e1l Martin said he \u2018would not be going on a witch hunt\u2019, but said TD should \u2018come forward\u2019Ramamoorthy (38), a former governmental adviser, was convicted of sexually exploiting a 13\u2011year\u2011old boy in 2017 by asking him to send a sexually explicit image over Snapchat\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Daniel Ramamoorthy. Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/112987871.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Daniel Ramamoorthy. Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Fegan, Mary Regan, Aisling Moloney and Fiona Magennis<\/p>\n<p>Today at 13:11<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A judge has dismissed a sentence appeal by convicted child sex offender and former governmental adviser Daniel Ramamoorthy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And Judge John Edwards also rejected a bid by the media for a politician who had provided a character reference for Ramamoorthy, to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge Edwards last week criticised a TD for praising Daniel Ramamoorthy\u2019s \u2018previous good name\u2019 while ignoring the victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-410208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410208","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=410208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}