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Thursday 11th January 2007
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Convicted prostitutes promise to leave the country
TWO foreign prostitutes working in Ireland have vowed to leave and never return after they were convicted of four separate offences.
Stela Zajacova (25) and Simona Holeckova (25), with addresses in Athy, Co Kildare, appeared before Judge Tom O'Donnell in Limerick District Court yesterday.
Ms Zajacova was charged with offering sexual services for payment to an undercover garda on Mallow Street, Limerick, in December. Ms Holeckova was charged with three similar offences in Limerick last week and in December and October 2006.
Last Thursday, Ms Holeckova was observed in a sexual act in a car parked in Corcanree Industrial Estate.
She was found to have €435 in one of her socks.
Both women, who are from Bratislava in Slovakia, pleaded guilty to all charges.
Defence solicitor Des Brophy said his clients realised how serious the matter was and they were going back to Bratislava.
Judge O'Donnell ordered that they pay fines of €250 from money recovered from them and that the balance off the monies recovered be donated to Limerick Rape Crisis Centre.
Barry Duggan
Source: Irish Independent
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Wednesday 30th August 2006
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Up to 500 children living on the streets
THE stark reality of living rough on Ireland's streets was highlighted yesterday by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
The charity said the figures which show the numbers of homeless children has risen to 500 highlighted the need for a nationwide 24-hour, on-call social work/child protection service.
Chief executive Paul Gilligan said he was particularly concerned that more than one in 25 children out of 492 described as homeless in the figures compiled by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and Department of Health was under the age of 12.
Mary Nicholson, the manager of the ISPCC's outreach programme, Leanbh, said the human reality of the figures, up from 476 in 2004, meant that children, often at a young age were being exposed to the horrors of drugs, alcohol, prostitution and assault.
She said while Leanbh staff dealt specifically with children who were begging, many of whom were not homeless, the charity's outreach staff also came into contact with "an awful lot" of children sleeping on the streets and who previously had been through the care process.
Eugene Moloney
Source: Irish Independent
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Wednesday 10th August 2005
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Teen on prostitution charge in care after failing drug test
A TEENAGE girl who is a recovering heroin addict and is facing a charge of engaging in prostitution was yesterday remanded in custody after failing a drug test.
The 18-year-old girl has been placed in care after being charged at the Dublin Children's Court, under Section 7 of the Criminal Law Sexual Offences Act, with loitering in a public place with intent to solicit or importune another person for the purposes of prostitution at Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, on January 3.
The 18-year-old was a juvenile at the time of her arrest and when the case had first come to court.
Previously, the court had heard that her mother and little sister, aged six, had been present when she was engaged in an alleged act of prostitution in a laneway with a 50-year-old man.
Following her arrest, the Health Service Executive put in place a care programme with accommodation, a training course, psychological assessments and drug rehabilitation treatment.
However, Judge Thomas Fitzpatrick heard yesterday that the girl had tested positive for use of cannabis and Valium and had broken a court-imposed curfew.
Garda Mathew McKenna said that after he arrested the girl for the bail condition breaches she became aggressive and shouted threats at him and at social workers. She lashed out at Garda McKenna and assaulted him.
Judge Fitzpatrick revoked bail and remanded the girl in custody to Mountjoy Prison.
The girl, who had been in tears, pleaded for bail claiming that she was pregnant and that she would be in danger from another detainee while in the prison.
The case was adjourned for a week.
After the girl was arrested and charged with engaging in prostitution in January, a comprehensive care programme was put in place.
She had the support of a team of social workers, but in recent months the court had heard that she had become less co-operative.
Tom Tuite
Source: Irish Independent
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