Judge: Parents ‘used teens as weapons’

The parents of two teenage girls from Rochestown in Cork before the juvenile court yesterday for assaults and violent disorder, were accused by the sentencing judge of using the girls as weapons in their own fight.

Judge Con O’Leary said the two teenagers were not victims of each other. Instead they were victims of their own parents.

In a stinging criticism of both sets of parents, the judge said: “They are behaving like children in High Infants, who unfortunately can do more damage. They are using their children as weapons.