Couple who left daughter with catastrophic brain damage found guilty of child cruelty

The jury heard evidence that at one stage the father told a detective that he carried out a ritual to get a “devil” to leave the child's body

After a 12-day trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, a jury of six men and five women found each parent guilty of two charges of assault causing serious harm and three charges of child cruelty. File photo

A married couple have been convicted of the neglect and cruelty of their daughter who has been left dependent on carers for the rest of her life after suffering catastrophic brain damage.

The Dublin based 39-year-old man and his 36-year-old wife had pleaded not guilty to two charges of assault causing serious harm and three charges of child cruelty at the family home in Dublin on dates between June 28 and July 2, 2019.