Medics called as panicked boy begs judge for sentence

An ambulance was called to the Dublin Children’s Court today to assist a 15-year-old boy who burst into a hysterical fit of tears begging the judge to sentence him.

Charges for theft of cars, trespassing, criminal damage and public order violations have accumulated since 2005, when the boy, then aged 12, made his first court appearance. In another incident the court heard that the troubled teen threatened to “burn down his room with him in it.”