Mum guilty of assaulting daughter, aged 5 months

A mother yesterday pleaded guilty to wilful neglecting and assaulting her then five-month-old daughter, who allegedly sustained a skull fracture and other bone injuries.

At Ennis Circuit Court yesterday, the 21-year-old Clare woman pleaded guilty to wilfully assaulting and neglecting the child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary injury to the child’s health and seriously affect her well being.

The woman cannot be named in order to protect the identity of her daughter, now aged two.