Woman gets suspended sentence for throwing child against wall in drunken attack
A Latvian woman who threw her partner’s six-year-old child against a wall and beat him with a mop while she was drunk has received a two-and-a-half year suspended sentence.
The 25-year-old woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, initially told gardaí she had no idea how the child got the injuries. She was minding him at the time when the boy’s father was at work.
