Mother who abducted children jailed for a year

THREE children were abducted from their foster home and driven to Wales by their mother and by the time the authorities caught up with her eight months later the children were showing obvious signs of neglect.

The 26-year-old mother was jailed for a total of one year at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday on three counts of abduction.

Garda Katrine Tansley testified that the three children were in foster care and that the mother arrived at the house where they were in care at 11.30pm on March 7. She demanded to take the three children, aged three, eight and nine.