Dublin man pleads guilty to reckless endangerment and child cruelty

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An unnamed Dublin man pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment and child cruelty at the Central Criminal Court on 4 July 2023.

He admitted one reckless endangerment charge involving his partner’s toddler and four child cruelty charges involving her and her brother.

He had been on trial accused of sexual offences, but those charges were not among the five to which he pleaded guilty.

The offences admitted related to events on 5 April 2018 and to placing the girl at risk of substantial harm between 29 March 2013 and 5 April 2018.

The man cannot be named to protect the children’s identities. He was due to be sentenced on 9 October.