Woman admits helping man abduct daughter

A WOMAN who helped a former teacher abduct his daughter from his estranged partner will be sentenced for the crime tomorrow.

At Clonmel Circuit Criminal Court yesterday 33-year-old Regina Nelligan pleaded guilty to taking then four-year-old Deirdre Crowley from her mother, Christine O’Sullivan, some time between December 3, 1999, and August 31, 2001.

Christopher Crowley, who was separated from Ms O’Sullivan, was seeing his daughter Deirdre by agreement on the first weekend of December 1999.