Mother jailed for catalogue of child abuse

A MOTHER will spend the next eight years in prison after a catalogue of shocking violence against eight of her children, which included regularly attaching vice grips to her children’s faces as punishment.

After hearing details of the litany of violence inflicted by the 47-year-old woman over a seven-year period, Judge Raymond Groarke expressed concern that such abuse could go on for so long with little or no intervention.

In harrowing testimony, Galway Circuit Court was told how the woman: