Woman avoids jail for 'extremely serious' passport fraud 

Judge said woman who arrived in Ireland on a student visa manipulated a vulnerable Cork man to put his name forward as the biological father of her child when they effectively had no relationship of any kind

Judge Dermot Sheehan imposed a fully suspended three-year sentence on the 44-year-old woman. Stock picture

A woman whose passport fraud was extremely serious and called into question “the integrity of both the Irish birth certificate registration system and the Irish passport system” has avoided a prison sentence.

Judge Dermot Sheehan imposed a fully suspended three-year sentence on the 44-year-old woman who cannot be named as it would identify her first born child.