Cork woman pretended to be abused child in malicious calls to gardaí

The calls were made between 4.37am and 6.25am on February 14 last year and were patched through to Anglesea St Garda Station. File picture

A woman made malicious 999 calls in which she claimed to be a young girl suffering physical and sexual abuse, leading to gardaí temporarily removing the children from the care of their mother.

Samantha Kennedy, aged 31, admitted making 10 such 999 calls over the space of two hours and said: "If I could take it back I would."