Girl fights leniency of mother’s sentence

The daughter of a woman convicted last month of neglecting her children has urged the DPP to appeal the leniency of her sentence.

Last month at Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Carroll Moran gave a suspended four-year sentence after the 38-year-old woman pleaded guilty to the neglect of her seven children between 2001 and 2010.

Judge Moran said the woman had deprived her children of their childhood, adding that she had committed the “unnatural crime” of neglecting her own children.