A 15-year-old Dublin teenager has been remanded in custody charged in connection with an assault on a woman he allegedly met on an anonymous social media website. A 15-year-old Dublin teenager has been remanded in custody charged in connection with an assault on a woman he allegedly met on an anonymous social media website. The court heard they exchanged text messages via the app before meeting last Saturday in Dun Laoghaire. The boy is also alleged to have used a knife to inflict a “lengthy transverse (horizontal) laceration to her neck”, the court heard. The boy has no previous convictions and no history of drug addiction or abuse, the court heard.

Source: Irish Independent December 26, 2017 21:22 UTC