Gardaí ‘forced to change nappies after kidnapping’

Gardaí were forced to change nappies and cook dinner for several children after their mother was allegedly kidnapped from her home, a trial has heard.

When gardaí arrived at the scene there were “children everywhere” and no one to mind them at the Longford home, a trial heard. The mother had allegedly just been kidnapped by her partner a short time after she obtained a barring order against him.

Her partner, and the father of the children, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape, false imprisonment, breaching a barring order and production of an article in November 2015 and four counts of assault causing harm between 2011 and 2015.