Man to plead guilty to ‘corporal punishment’ of two children

A 36-year-old man who used “an excess of corporal punishment” on two of his children, dragging them by the hair and slapping them, is to plead guilty to a number of charges of child cruelty at district court level in the southwest.

The prosecution was brought under the Children’s Act and the two injured parties are now in their teens.

The man appeared before a court earlier this year in Co Kerry on nine charges involving the boy and the girl and the judge had deferred the matter to study garda files on the matter, saying the charges were serious.