Cork family's house ransacked as three young children slept

A house was ransacked and €1,200 worth of property was taken as three young children slept when the culprit got into the house through friends of the babysitter.

Inspector Ronan Kenneally said at Cork District Court yesterday that the babysitter may have had permission to have some friends visit when she was babysitting but more people arrived than she expected. One of them went through upstairs rooms in the house without her knowledge and stole the property.

The family was very upset to find that their property was taken, particularly one item which had sentimental value, a digital camera with family photographs.