Care home teen moved across country after Kildare incident, court hears
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A JUDGE showed his continuing mercy with troubled teens again recently when he allowed a teenage girl leave the court without the stain of conviction, despite being found guilty of assault, criminal damage and theft.
Athy District Court heard how the girl was in court to face the charges of assaulting her care worker at a home in Kildare on 26 February 2025, then vandalizing the property in an unspecified fashion.
Then later, on 26 October that year she took two cans of alcohol from Lidl in Athy, with a value of €13, according to Sergeant Dave Hanrahan.
The teenager was a no-show in court, but a social worker familiar to her case attended to tell Judge Desmond Zaidan that the teen had to be moved to a care home on the other side of the country on account of the damage she did.
The girl had nine previous convictions, three for criminal damage, four for assault, and that she would be 18 soon.
“(Named girl’s) life as it’s panned out, she is living her punishment, so will apply the Probation Act,” decreed the judge.
