Judge refuses Tusla application to put three children of sex offender into care

The children’s father was convicted in 1999 of the sexual abuse in 1995 of two girls under the age of 12

The CFA had made the ICO concerning the children’s two parents as it believes the children’s mother has an inability to accept the risk posed by the father and to safeguard the children. File photo

A judge has refused an application by Tusla, the Child & Family Agency (CFA), to put three children of a convicted sex offender into care.

At the Family Law Court, Judge Bernadette Owens said that the CFA application had reached the threshold for the making of an Interim Care Order (ICO) in the case.