Boy forced to sleep outside and repeatedly hit with ladle by mother’s partner

Judge McCourt was also concerned that the boy’s mother appeared to have sided with the perpetratorhe facts of the abuse were confirmed for the court by Garda Eoin Reardon who stationed in New Ross during the Covid pandemic.Defending barrister Emmet Whitmore suggested that his client – himself a father several times over – had boiled over and failed to deal with the situation properly.