A GIRL threatened to put a curse on a garda that she “would never be able to have children”. Despite pleading guilty, the girl (15) denied making the curse, Tallaght Court heard.
Judge James McDonnell told the girl’s solicitor, Michael Hennessy, to explain to his client “the danger of issuing these curses”.
The girl, a Traveller with an address in Tallaght, had pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, failing to comply with a garda’s directions and obstructing a garda at an estate in Tallaght on September 16th, 2010.
She had also pleaded guilty to stealing Christmas decorations worth €256.65 from Woodies DIY, Tallaght, on December 13th, 2010, and to stealing clothing worth €24 from Dunnes Stores in The Square on November 20th, 2010.
The case was before Judge McDonnell for a probation report and to hear from the garda on the matter.
The garda told the court that at 10.30pm on September 16th last, she responded to an assistance call. Arriving at the scene, she said there was a large group of females who were refusing to leave the area. She said the eight females had been refusing to get out of a car and had started to become very aggressive.
She said the women eventually left the vehicle and she directed one of them, the 15 year old, to leave the area. The girl then hit another female garda in the face.
The garda said: “When I went to arrest her, she threatened to kick me and threatened to stab me. She repeated that she was going to stab me. She said she was going to put a curse that I would never be able to have children.”
The court heard that the girl had no previous convictions.
Mr Hennessy said: “We are standing over our plea but those verbals are denied.”
He put it to the garda that his client denied threatening to curse her. The garda replied: “Those verbals were said by her.”
Mr Hennessy told the judge that the probation report was “really excellent”.
Judge McDonnell pointed out to Mr Hennessy that many people believed that for those who made curses, the curse reflected back on them.
He said it was an “encouraging” report. He remanded the case to September for a further report to follow up on her schooling and mentoring. “I expect an excellent report at the end of September. If there are any more charges, these charges will have to be brought back before me.”