State has no secure special care space for teenage girl threatened with being shot, High Court hears

The State has no secure special care space for a teenage girl threatened with being shot if she doesn’t co-operate with a drug gang that has set out to exploit her, a High Court Judge was told onTuesday.

Mr Justice Oisín Quinn said he was concerned that while there were 26 special care beds in the country only 15 were currently staffed and none was available for the 16-year-old girl whose life had been threatened.

Barrister Paul Gunning told Mr Justice Quinn that while the girl required “civil detention” for her own health and safety in a secure specia...
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