Judge urges HSE involvement for pregnant teen

A judge today urged the lawyer of a 15-year-old pregnant Romanian girl, who is charged with a shoplifting offence and living in Ireland without her parents, to get the HSE involved in her case.

The girl, who claims to be married and has been living in Ireland for the past 18 months, had pleaded guilty at the Children’s Court to stealing the jeans, from the Topman shop in the Jervis Shopping Centre, in central Dublin, on December 12 last.