*Photograph: Gary Collins A JUDGE has warned the parents of a Co Clare school-shy boy that they face jail after commenting that their son “has been missing from school for most of his life”.
*The matter came before the Family Law Court. A JUDGE has requested TUSLA staff to do a welfare check at the home of two children who haven’t been to school since March as he wants “to know that they are alive”.
*It is the fourth child of this couple to be taken into State care. TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency (CFA) is to seek a full care order until the age of 18 for a new born baby boy who was effectively abandoned at the maternity hospital by his mother four days after his birth.
*The comments were made in the Family Law Court. A JUDGE has stated that he is “terrified” that a 17-year old boy in State care “who can barely boil an egg” will end up in emergency accommodation in a hotel on reaching his 18th birthday next month.
*Registered letters sent to the couple are bouncing back. A new-born baby boy effectively abandoned last month when his mother discharged herself from a regional maternity hospital is ’thriving’ in his foster placement, a court has heard.
*Family Law Court Ennis A “shocking forgery” has been handed into a court falsely claiming that a mother, who is alleged to have drugged her children with a view to feigning their illness, had won custody of her children. At the Family Law Court, Judge Alec Gabbett called on TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency (CFA) to investigate the matter. In …
*TUSLA’s waiting list was among the concerns voiced by the Judge. THE PARENTS of an ‘out of control’ young teen “had no choice” but to hand him over to the Gardaí resulting in the boy being taken into State care.
*An update on the boy was provided at a sitting of the Family Law Court. A JUDGE HAS stated that apartment living plans next year for a 17 year old boy who “can’t boil a kettle” is a pipe dream right now.
THREE PRIMARY school going children at the centre of ‘flogging at home’ allegations want to return home to their mother after almost three years apart, a court has heard.
A mother and father have not been able to hold their toddler girl in their arms, or see her face to face, for a four month period since last Christmas due to Covid-19 Level 5 restrictions, a court has heard.
