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A judge approved an order removing three children from their parents’ care after hearing allegations that they were naked and flogged by their father.
Judge Mary Larkin granted Tusla a 28-day interim care order during a Family Law Court session in Ennis on Monday. The parents do not know the address of their new home by court order.
A child support coordinator at a local shelter told the court that one of the children, a six-year-old boy, told her ‘my dad whips me with a wire and I have to take off my pants and it still hurts.’
The court also heard an accusation that the man struck a minor child with a shoe, leaving bruises and marks.
Judge Larkin said she had heard “the most extraordinary allegations of serious physical abuse against three young children” from the man, but could not say “whether it is true or false at this time.”
The mother of the three children gave a sworn statement in court in July of the alleged flogging when she obtained a protection order against her husband, who is the father of two of the children.
‘All lies’
However, on Monday the woman told Judge Larkin that what she testified in July and what the children told social workers about the abuse were “lies.”
“I made up some things against my husband,” she said. “I want my family and my children to come back to me. I don’t want them to take care of them. ”
Tusla’s attorney Kevin Sherry said the claim that all of the above was false “is in no way credible.”
Tusla filed for the interim care order after the mother took the children to the father’s new address in violation of a safety plan established by the agency.
Gardaí and social workers removed the children from there and took them to the home of one of their mother’s relatives, but that location was no longer available, so the care order was needed.
The woman and her children entered a shelter in June and a support worker told the court that the six-year-old boy said his father had previously hit him on the head, kicked him in the stomach and hit him with a pipe. that I used to hold. even the hangers in a closet. She said she didn’t want to go back to her father.
The two children Tusla interviewed also alleged that they saw the man slap and hit their mother.
Possible charges
Judge Larkin told the father that perhaps he should not testify as he could face assault and damage charges in criminal court. However, the man said that “everything they said about me was lies from the beginning.
“I would never hurt my children,” he said.
When asked why his wife went to court and said that he beat her and the children, the man said it was due to a misunderstanding about money.
Two Tusla social workers told Judge Larkin that the allegations made by the children are credible. One said the children’s mother had said that she used makeup to cover the children’s bruises before they went to school.
The social worker stated that when she was worried about the mother, she asked if her husband had threatened her.
The mother said no, said the social worker.
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