HSE sends abused teen to adult hospital

THE mother of a suicidal Wexford teenage girl who survived a six-year litany of sexual abuse has criticised the health authorities for offering her daughter a bed in an adult psychiatric hospital.

The 16-year-old girl, who has attempted to kill herself as many as eight times, has been in a paediatric unit in Wexford General Hospital while her family waits for an adolescent psychiatric bed to become available.

She had to be treated for more injuries over the weekend after repeatedly banging her hands against a wall, with X-rays taken to ensure she had not broken any bones.