Flat for troubled teen ‘scandalous’

It is “absolutely scandalous” that the Child & Family Agency (Tusla) has placed a troubled teen in an apartment in Co Louth where he is free to roam around a town until 11pm every night, a judge has stated.

At the family court in Ennis, Judge Patrick Durcan lashed out at Tusla’s failure to date to have in place any structure or therapies for the 16-year-old at his new placement.

The boy was moved by Tusla to the apartment from a residential unit in Co Clare earlier this week and Judge Durcan said: “The CFA has put nothing in place for this boy other than fixing him up an apartment and brought him out shopping — this for a 16-year-old. I think what is being done in this case is absolutely scandalous.”