Woman threatened with jail over child care social media posts

Woman threatened with jail over child care social media posts

A woman has been threatened with jail if she continues posting information about her son’s child care proceedings on social media.

Mr Justice Denis McDonald told the unnamed woman, whose son is in the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, that she faces serious consequences if she continues to post information about child care proceedings, The Irish Times reports.

The woman is pursuing a judicial review of child care orders made by the District Court in relation to her child.

She had previously been sent to prison for publishing material online which identified her son in the child care proceedings.

Lawyers for Tusla told the High Court that they had no alternative but to submit a motion for attachment and committal to prison, which Mr Justice McDonald adjourned to next week.

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