‘She wasn’t a mother, she was an evil bitch’

A 47-YEAR-OLD mother has been sentenced to 24 years in prison with the final 16 years suspended for the cruelty and neglect of eight of her children over a seven-year period.

The woman, who cannot be named in order to protect the identity of the children, pleaded guilty before Galway Circuit Criminal Court to eight sample charges of assaulting, ill-treating and neglecting the children from May 2002 to June 2009.

The charges relate to two of the woman’s sons and six of her daughters.