Mother used son, 5, to steal two baskets of clothes

A mother who used her five-year-old to steal two baskets of clothes from Penneys had a jail term overturned yesterday.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Tom O’Donnell said he was “appalled” at the behaviour of Tania McCarthy, aged 29, for using her son in the double theftlast year.

In June 2015, the married mother of four was jailed for four months for the thefts . However, she hasn’t served any time as she appealed the term to the circuit court.