State unable to provide secure facility for troubled teen

The Dublin Children’s Court heard today that a troubled 14-year-old girl needed a two-year placement in a secure therapeutic care facility which the State cannot provide.

The 14-year-old girl had been remanded in custody to Oberstown Girls’ Centre in mid-September after being charged with three assault offences, that are alleged to have taken place in the west Dublin care home in which she had been residing.