Social worker guilty of €96k fraud

A social worker put the names of children on the official HSE list of children at risk who should never have been placed on it in order to carry out a €96,000 financial scam for herself.

Jennifer O’Driscoll of St John’s Terrace, World’s End, Kinsale, Co Cork, aged 45, used her detailed knowledge of the payment system for foster families and her position of trust within that area to steal over €96,000 between May 2008 and January 2013.

O’Driscoll has since been dismissed from her job as a HSE social worker, the court heard.