A Kilkenny Councillor is calling for the woman jailed this week for the manslaughter of her newborn baby to be released.
23-year-old Caitlin Corcoran, of Castlebanney, Mullinavat, and formerly of Mount Suir, Carrickphierish in Waterford City was sentenced to three months in prison with another three years suspended (more here).
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She was found guilty by a jury last October of manslaughter and neglect after putting her daughter in a bin after giving birth in a Caredoc toilet when she was 19.
On KCLR’s The Way It Is last evening, Green Cllr Maria Dollard said prosecution and jail is not the correct response to a tragic case like this and the sentence should be reversed.
Hear her conversation with our Sue Nunn here:
