Prostitution case hearing set for March

A TEENAGE girl charged with engaging in prostitution was yesterday remanded on bail by the Dublin Children's Court for a hearing next March.

The girl, now aged 18, but who was a juvenile at the time of the alleged offence is charged under section 7 of the Criminal Law Sexual Offences Act for loitering in a public place with intent to solicit or importune another person for the purposes of prostitution, at Stoneybatter, D.7, on January 3 last.

Previously the court had heard that her mother and little sister, aged six, were present when she was engaged in an alleged act of prostitution in a laneway with a 50-year-old man.