Troubled teen to continue Swedish care scheme

A TROUBLED teenager, who was sent to a special care unit in Sweden, may spend three more years there at a cost of €100,000 a year, a court heard yesterday.

The 15-year-old boy, who once set fire to a room with children in it, left Ireland in November to commence a placement in a special care unit on an island off the Swedish coast, which was arranged through the Health Service Executive (HSE).

He became the second child to be sent to this unit, the Hassela Gotland centre, located on a small island in the Baltic Sea.