A four-year-old boy was “kept out of sight” from his family to hide bruising on his face following a series of assaults before he died having been shaken by his stepmother, a barrister has told a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court.
In her opening speech on Wednesday Anne Rowland SC for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said the accused, a woman in her 30s from the southwest of the country, told gardaí the boy was a “bold, cheeky child” and often had to be grounded.
She described keeping the boy in his room in the days before his death, where he had to sit on the floor and was allowed out only to go to the bathroom or for emergencies. She told gardaí that on the day the boy suffered his fatal injuries, she “snapped” and recalled “shaki
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