Bits of girl’s flesh speared on toy rake after accident

BITS of a three-year-old child’s flesh were speared on the prongs of a toy rake following an accident at her creche, a judge heard yesterday.

The Circuit Civil Court was told that little Aoife Cullen’s mother, Catherine, saw the gruesome aftermath of a fall by her daughter in the Chuckleberries Creche at Westmanstown, Clonsilla, Dublin, seven years ago.

Barrister Barney Quirke said Mrs Cullen, of Elm Close, Lucan, Co Dublin, had just delivered Aoife, now 10, to the creche, which is owned by Tree Tops Day Nursery Ltd.