The teacher, who also assisted the boy with learning support in senior infants and first class, said that she felt sorry for the boy. She described him as obedient and a child who loved praise.
The six family members, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of abusing three children between 2014 and 2016. The accused are the parents, aunts and uncles of the children. They range in ages from 27 to 56. She called to his home first and the child answered the door before running to the top of stairs and sitting down, hunched with his head in his hands.
"I was really really shocked. It was so filthy. It is hard to believe that anyone could live in that never mind five children that are coming to school every day," the woman continued. "There was no affection or worry shown towards him, he was more giving out to him," the woman continued. The woman said she ultimately decided that she needed to make an official report to Tusla. "I passed on the notes that I had made about the state of the house."
"I told them I was hugely concerned and a report would be submitted to Tusla," the woman told the jury."I told her that she had admitted that she was struggling," the woman said before she added that she told the parents she felt Tusla would be the best to support them. She said in senior infants she noticed that the child had vomit on her jacket one morning in school. She said she pointed this out to her mother and spoke to her about hygiene. The child continued to come to school with the vomit on her jacket for about a week or two weeks.
She said the parents had the same sheet and were regularly spoken to about the need to have the children clean for school. The teacher agreed with Dean Kelly SC, defending the mother, that she had said previously that it appeared to her that the parents were not coping.
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