Delivering on the services surrounding Irish children in care overseas
MOST boys in the latter years of primary school are interested in kickabouts, or riding their BMX, maybe building a den. Not this boy.
“He tried to commit suicide,” his mother says. He tried to do it front of her. “At [that age] you wouldn’t expect that,” she says. He told her that voices in his head were telling him to harm himself and worse. She now believes he had a breakdown. She called the GP, but he had gone home, and tried a clinic, but nobody was answering. She straightened the boy out and put him in the shower.
