A teenage girl, who attacked four Gardaí by spitting, punching and biting them, has been given 100 hours community service.
The girl, aged 17, who had been described as “destroying her young life with alcohol” and was ordered by Judge Angela Ni Chonduin, to do the community service or face the alternative, a term in Mountjoy Prison.
The girl had had pleaded guilty earlier at the Dublin Children’s Court to assaulting four Gardaí, as well as engaging in a breach of the peace and failing to comply with the directions of a Garda, in connection with the incident in Finglas, on St Patrick’s Day.
The girl, who had been with a group of youths, had been cautioned to leave an area over fears that a breach of the peace would happen.
She then lashed out and hit one Garda in the eye; she knocked another officer to the ground and when he got up he was met with a punch in the face.
The teenage girl then spat at another officer and then bit a female Garda on her thigh. She was then handcuffed and taken to Finglas Garda station where she continued to be aggressive in the public office.
In another incident, the court had previously heard that the girl had got so intoxicated that she did not remember getting arrested for being drunk and disorderly and in breach of the peace.
She has no recollection of her arrest or the incident and first learned about it when she received a summons.
Judge Ni Chonduin noted from a probation report that the girl was suitable for community service. The teen’s mother said that her girl intended to restart her education.
However, the girl refused to do community service at which Judge Ni Chonduin ordered that she was to be placed in one of the courthouse cell for an hour.
When the girl was later brought back into court she had a change of heart and indicated that she would be willing to do the community service.