Teenage girl appeals sentence for attacks

A 16-year-old girl who attacked two care workers looking after her at a HSE residential facility in Cork yesterday appealed against a three-month sentence of detention.

The teenager was sentenced to two concurrent three-month sentences for assaulting a male and a female care worker at the facility on May 16, 2013.

Judge David Riordan noted at Cork Circuit Appeals Court yesterday that the teenager had been remanded in detention for a total of one month and three days while these charges were being prosecuted.