Corporal punishment warning after death

A JURY in an inquest into the death of a three-year-old girl has recommended that corporal punishment not be used by people in charge of “fragile” children.

The rider was brought in by the six woman and two-man jury at the end of an inquest yesterday into the death of Sefora Kycwak in Tralee in 2005.

There were a number of witness statements at the coroner’s court in Tralee of how the child had dozens of injuries and scratches on her body, some of which were old, at the time of her death from brain injury.