‘Unacceptable of devious’ mother not to share custody

A judge has told a “devious, self-serving, duplicitous” mother that it is “unacceptable” she has not complied with a court order awarding shared custody to the father of their two children.

In the case, the woman alleges the man has sexually abused their five year old girl and as a result, the father of the two children has not seen them since February.

The man vehemently denies the sex abuse allegation and in awarding joint custody earlier this month at the family law court in Ennis, Judge Patrick Durcan said that he believes that the mother “has concocted a version of events, irrespective of the effect of that approach on others, particularly her children, to serve her own purposes”.