Teen ordered to do what his mother tells him

A troubled 16-year-old who spent the last two weeks in detention in a case related to robbing phones from other youths was warned by a judge yesterday to respect his mother on his release home.

Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin made it a condition of the teenager’s release on bail that he would do what his mother told him at home.

“She is not his maid servant, she is not his assistant. Respect her. If he cannot live with that, then when he is old enough at 18, move out, don’t give grief to anybody,” Judge Ní Chondúin told the teenager at a juvenile hearing of Cork District Court yesterday.

The youth faces two robbery charges. They relate to incidents at Douglas Community Park on February 17 when the teenager and two others used a blade to threaten and rob two other youths. Those youths were robbed of an iPhone worth €500 and a Samsung Galaxy worth the same amount.

The accused before Cork District Court had previously pleaded guilty to carrying out the robberies.

Because of the lack of the defendant’s co-operation in having a psychiatric report prepared on him while on bail, he was remanded in custody for a fortnight to Oberstown so that the report could be prepared.

Eddie Burke, defending, confirmed that the report had been prepared.

Judge Ní Chondúin said that it was a good outcome out of the time in detention. She agreed to release the defendant on bail to appear before Judge Con O’Leary next week for sentencing.

On the application of Inspector Eileen Foster, several conditions were attached. He is to sign four times a week at his local Garda station between 9am and 1pm, he must stay out of Douglas Village, Douglas Community Park, the Topaz filling station in the area, and stay away from Ringaskiddy. The judge also made it a condition that he would do what he was told at home.