17-year-old girl gets four months for attacking care worker

A troubled 17-year-old girl who, while armed with a scissors, attacked a care worker and threatened to “slit her throat right in the jugular”, was given a four-month sentence by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court today.

Finalising the case, Judge Smyth urged the HSE and other agencies to give assistance to the girl, who had been residing in a non-secure care home, while she was in custody. He also said he hoped that support for the girl, who had asked to be sentenced, would be continued on her release early next year.