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A North Cork woman was hit on the head with a poker brandished by her own son during a domestic incident.
Garda Detective Dave Noonan said Gardaí responded to a report of a domestic incident shortly before 10 p.m. on January 18.
The gardaí arrived to find the injured, a woman in her 40s, who told them that there was an argument with her 23-year-old son and that he took a poker, hit his head and then used the poker to smash a window in the House.
Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin today qualified this case as extremely serious by imposing a sentence of three years with the last year suspended on the young man.
The judge also made it a condition of the suspension of the last year of the sentence that the accused stay away from his mother for a period of 12 months.
Judge Ó Donnabháin imposed this condition despite the fact that defense attorney Brian Leahy pointed out that the injured party had been in regular contact with his son since he was detained in May.
The judge said he could well understand how the mother did not want to make a victim impact statement for the sentencing hearing. She said it was quite difficult for her to be assaulted, file a complaint, and see her son in court and in jail without making a formal victim impact statement.
Det. Garda Moynihan said the injured party told gardaí the night that there was an argument with his son. “And then he attacked her with a poker, hitting her on the head and body, and that he broke a window of the house with a poker.
“He suffered large bruises on his wrist and his entire left arm. She does not want to make a statement about the impact of the victim, ”he said.
Judge Ó Donnabháin said: “It would be an act of cruelty to ask him to make a statement about the impact of the victim on the circumstances.”
Leahy BL said that the defendant had an alcohol problem and a drug-related problem and was willing to address these issues. The lawyer said that when the defendant was not drunk he was a very nice young man.
Judge Ó Donnabháin concluded: “This is a very sad case. This young man attacked and abused his mother in this way. It must be heartbreaking for her.
“There was a restraining order and against this and other previous judicial orders this aggression is carried out. I will not tolerate that. “
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