Child in assault of garda ‘unsafe in care’

A CHILD assaulted a garda after she had earlier presented herself at the Garda station because she said she did not feel safe in residential care, the High Court has been told.

A senior counsel for the Guardian Ad Litem in the Minors List case told the court that shortly after the girl had contacted Gardaí there was an incident and a garda was assaulted.

In another case a teenager staying in a detention facility in Britain due to return here in the near future has not been visited by the HSE. Senior counsel in the case said the HSE had been asked three times regarding a community social worker for the girl, adding: “We have a young girl being detained against her will outside of this jurisdiction who is not even being visited.”