Mother claims she told social worker of her addiction in Cork child neglect case

A three-year-old boy was found shivering in a cabin at the back of a derelict house in Cork City while his mother and her partner were taking of heroin.

The case could not go ahead as Judge Roberts is no longer based at Cork District Court.

Evidence will be called in court in relation to a claim by a young mother in a child neglect case that she told a social worker of her drug addiction but that her children were left with her.

Judge Colm Roberts has already found the facts of the neglect/child cruelty case proven against the young woman and he adjourned the matter for further evidence.