Caitlin Corcoran jailed for newborn’s manslaughter

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Caitlin Corcoran was jailed for three months for manslaughter and child neglect at Waterford Circuit Criminal Court, in a sentence reported on 5 July 2022.

Judge Eugene O’Kelly imposed concurrent terms of three years and three months for each offence, suspending three years of both sentences. The offences arose after Corcoran gave birth at a medical centre in Waterford in 2018 and placed her newborn daughter in a bin.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.