*The barring order followed a seven-day interim barring order.
A MOTHER found smoking crack cocaine in her bedroom with her three-year-old boy present in the house has been barred from the family home for one year.
This follows Judge Alec Gabbett at the Family Law Court in Ennis granting the one year Barring Order to the woman’s husband.
The man had initially secured a seven day Interim Barring Order returnable to today to allow the mother to contest her husband’s one year Barring Order application.
However, the woman was a ‘no-show’ to contest the order.
Judge Gabbett said that he was granting the one year Barring Order as the woman is living in the house with young children and she is a danger due to her intoxication on crack cocaine and that she may accidentally set the house on fire under the influence of drugs.
The husband told Judge Gabbett today that when Gardaí arrived with the IBO in recent days that required her to vacate the home, his wife left the home to move in with her parents.
Judge Gabbett asked the man does the danger still exist if the woman resides in the family home through her drug addiction.
In response, the husband said, “Yes 100 percent, I don’t trust her around the kids. I don’t feel safe for the kids around her”.
The man said that this was not due to any violence but due to his wife’s drug habits.
The husband said that his wife is currently three weeks into a six week out-patient course in order to commence a five-month residential programme at a drug treatment facility.
The husband said, “We have been down this road before and it hasn’t worked”.
The husband said that the couple’s two eldest children don’t want to see their mother right now while the three-year-old has had a supervised visit with their mother since she left the home.
The man previously told the court that his wife has been addicted to crack cocaine for the last 12 months and has had drug addiction issues for the past three years.
He said that on February 12th he found his wife smoking crack cocaine in their bedroom with their three-year-old boy in the home at the time.
The husband said after coming home from work “when I came into the room she was in the bed with just tinfoil around her, a lighter and a pipe”.
The man said, “I found burn marks on the quilt in our bedroom”.
Judge Gabbett said that the woman was effectively consenting to the one-year order.
