Six months for boy who beat up his mother

A 16-year-old Dublin boy who kicked, punched and grabbed his mother by her neck during a domestic-violence attack, has been given a six-month detention sentence by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Children’s Court.

The teenager pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to his mother and criminal damage to his family home, which happened on a date last July. He also admitted possessing 30 ecstasy tablets on a later date.