Cork mother successfully appeals jail sentence in 'harrowing' child cruelty case
The court heard two of the children were still in care and the defendant was living with the youngest child. File photo: iStock
A young mother who locked her three children in bedrooms while she went out drinking ended up detained at a garda station for drink-driving – and she has just succeeded in her appeal against a prison term.
She was sentenced to six months in jail in November 2019 as Judge Olann Kelleher said at the time: “It is the most harrowing case I have dealt with in the last 10 years.” Now at Cork Circuit Appeals Court, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin has suspended the sentence, on the application of Eugene Murphy, solicitor.
