Woman to be asked for statement on garda abuse claim as search for baby ends

GARDAÍ are to seek a statement from the woman at the centre of a garden dig for a dead baby boy on new allegations that a garda sexually abused her.

Senior officers yesterday morning ended a search for a baby at a house in south Dublin after they had found no signs of human remains.

A woman, calling herself Niamh, had told gardaí she gave birth to a child in 1976, when she was 15, and the stillborn baby was buried in the back garden of her childhood home in Dalkey. The woman originally made these claims to gardaí in 1995, several months after she had told them that a murdered baby found in Dun Laoghaire in April 1973 was hers.