Social worker jailed for a year over €96k financial scam

A social worker was jailed yesterday for a €96,000 scam in which she put names on the HSE list of children at risk who should never have been on it.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said that even though the accused would repay all of the money taken or more — between money paid and proposals to pay — a jail term still had to be imposed.

Jennifer O’Driscoll of St John’s Terrace, World’s End, Kinsale, Co Cork, was sentenced to three years, with the last two years suspended.