Mother jailed for neglecting education of son (8)

did not accept the woman had been doing her best to get her child to school and the situation got worse since her trial in October when sentencing was adjourned.

A parent can be fined up to €1,000 and jailed for a month if convicted of breaking the Education Act for not complying with an official warnings about a child’s school attendance. The lone parent had been found guilty following a hearing on October 8th last and Judge Halpin heard on Monday that her son’s school attendance continued to get worse.The west Dublin mother had been cleared of the same charge in relation to the child’s older sibling who was suspected of suffering from depression and anxiety.

So far in the 2018-2019 year there were 134 school days and the boy had missed 90 of them, an absent rate of 67 per cent, Judge Halpin was told.

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