Probation for teen who threw boy out first-floor window

A Russian boy, who threw another teenage asylum seeker out a first-floor window, has been put on probation for one year.

The teenager (aged 17), pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court to assault causing harm to another teenage boy at a south Dublin asylum hostel for unaccompanied minors, on May 13 last year.

Garda Ronan Ormsby had told the court "there was a fight at the hostel, it was alleged that one of the boys was pushed or thrown out a window on the first floor on to the street below".

He said the victim suffered a broken ankle and did not make a full recovery.

The court heard that a row had broken out with the victim in the room when it was after defendant “burst in". During the ensuing struggle the victim got thrown out of the window.

The defendant, also an unaccompanied minor, who had been living in the hostel also has since been moved, the court was also told.

The boy’s solicitor Michelle Finan has said he was in school and staying with a family with the view of being taken into their care.

His social worker had reported to the court that the boy has been getting on well and has been co-operative.

Judge Catherine Murphy imposed a 12 month probation bond compelling the teen to be of good behaviour and to co-operate with and follow the recommendations of the Probation and Welfare Services.