Film student sentenced to 3 years suspended for blackmailing girl, given community service instead.

22-year-old film student Stephen Seery was sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term and 240 hours of community service for attempting to blackmail a young girl into having sex by threatening to share her intimate images online. Seery also assaulted Garda Gemma Prendergast when she posed as the girl to meet him. The court considered his remorse, lack of prior convictions, and autism diagnosis in imposing the sentence.

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