Childminder pleads guilty to breaking one-year-old niece's arm

A 19-year-old Latvian childminder has pleaded guilty to wilfully assaulting, ill-treating and neglecting her one-year-old baby niece.

In the case at Ennis Circuit Court, the teen has pleaded guilty to wilfully assaulting, neglecting, ill-treating, abandoning and exposing the child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to the child’s health at an address in Ennis on May 21 last year.