Judge: 'Parents deprived daughter of education'
A judge today hit out at the parents of a teenage Roma girl found guilty of an attempted house break-in, saying they had deprived the child of an education for nine years and were “living in the 19th century.”
The 16-year-old girl, who is originally from Romania but came to Ireland with her family in 1999, had been found guilty at the Children’s Court of trespass with intent to commit an offence at a house, in Sansouci Park, in Booterstown, in south County Dublin, on September 6 last year.
