Boy didn't know how to use knife and fork, abuse trial hears

Foster mother was giving evidence in the trial of three men and three woman for abuse of three children

The Central Criminal Court heard both parents are also accused of wilfully neglecting two of their younger children. File picture

A foster mother has told a child abuse trial that when she took one of the male complainants into her home he didn’t know how to use a knife and fork and had almost no teeth.

The woman was giving evidence in the trial of three men and three women. The charges against a fourth woman, the children's grandmother, were withdrawn on Tuesday by direction of the trial judge.