Jury discharged in child abandonment case

The jury in the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of a woman accused of abandoning her baby outside a pub in which the child’s father was drinking has been discharged.

The 35 year-old Dublin woman had pleaded not guilty to wilfully abandoning the four-month-old outside the Belgard Pub, Tallaght on April 26, 2003. It was day two of the hearing.