Woman jailed for assault causing serious harm to son

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A woman was jailed for nine years, with the final two suspended, at the Central Criminal Court on 6 October 2022 for assault causing serious harm to her son. The offence happened at her Dublin home on 9 October 2019, when she poured boiling water over the child.

Mr Justice David Keane also imposed concurrent sentences for false imprisonment and producing a large kitchen knife to intimidate a social care worker. The woman’s original attempted murder charges were later dropped after she pleaded guilty to the three other offences. The court accepted that she was suffering from a mental disorder, although it did not meet the legal threshold for insanity.