Munster rape trial: Social worker was concerned parents had learning disability

A social worker agreed that case conferences followed her initial meetings as she still had concerns about the parents’ capacity to care for their children.

 A social worker has accepted that she had concerns about the intellectual capacity of the parents of the children in an alleged abuse case and put additional supports in place to assist them.

The social worker, who was assigned to the family in 2014, agreed with Mark Nicholas SC, defending the child’s father, that she had “an inkling, a concern” that the parents had a learning disability following a number of meetings with them.