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Updated 1o.55pm
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TWO CHILDREN WERE returned to their mother after three years in care. The judge said it was a “good news story” that she didn’t come across too often.
The solicitor for the Child and Family Agency (CFA) also said that it was a positive story and acknowledged the work that the mother had put in.
The social worker who prepared the report on the case said that significant progress had been made in the past seven months.
She said that the mother had been active in taking part in all the supports and they were happy to let her daughter return home to her.
“All the supports are there to allow this to happen,” said the social worker.
“It is Child A’s wish to go home. She very much wants to feel normal and not to be known as the ‘child in care’,” said the social worker.
“The mother has been engaging with the agency, has been making great progress and the CFA wants to continue to support her. We wish it all to work out for Child A and mother,” she said.
The judge said it was with her “great pleasure to discharge this care order. It is not very often I can do this in court”.
“I commend [the mother] on all her work.”
She said she would like to see supervision be put in place for a period of 12 months and she wanted all supports to be put in place to support the mother.
“It is not going to be easy, but I am sure you understand that yourself,”the judge told the mother, which she replied that she did.
“I wish you all the best and I hope it all goes well for you,” said the judge.
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Guns are not a problem. Clocks are dangerous especially, when the time runs out. It’s hard to take seriously.
Wouldn’t be a problem if everybody had a clock.
That’s what the National Clockmakers Association told me anyway.
Clocks don’t kill people. People with clocks kill people.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a clock, is a good guy with a cock.
maybe if he puts a Christian bible quote on the clock it will no longer look like a bomb…
Maybe he was going to kill time…..
what a country of imbeciles you couldn’t make it up
The kids lucky he didn’t get shot ffs.
maybe they thought it was a glock and not a clock.
maybe they felt they were being watched.
If it was a glock it wouldn’t be an issue =P
Is this a wind up? If not it’s quite alarming.
His ‘engineering teacher’ should be looking for a new job if she honestly thought that a clock looked like a bomb.Although I nearly triggered a scare at Shannon once by carrying a weather clock with a wire wrapped around it in my laptop case.Security were called but once I showed them what it was all was cool.But an engineering teacher should know better.
@Jamsey, this article is missing an important point, he did bring the clock into the school to show the engineering teacher but it was in fact his English teacher who panicked, apparently it chirped in his bag and she asked to see it and it all went downhill from there.
Why write ‘engineering teacher’? I’m sure s/he has a degree in engineering and is teaching it so that person is an engineering teacher.
Ah, my apologies for pinning the blame on the wrong teacher.It did kinda surprise me that an engineering teacher would make such a mistake. An English teacher though….;-)
Of the other kids had also made clocks they could have defended themselves.
“Ain’t nobody got time for that”
I’m still curious as to how you make a home made clock? Impressive!
Somewhere in Ireland tonight, John Joe Brennan is shedding a silent tear for humanity ;)
That’s exactly why women shouldn’t be Engineering teachers.
Actually Uncle Monty, it was his English teacher who reported the device as suspicious. Although nice attempt at trying to troll women.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslim-teen-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school-says-they-made-me-feel-like-i-wasnt-human-10503183.html?cmpid=facebook-post
It was a joke. That’s exactly why there are no funny female comedians.
Can’t think of any comedians named “Uncle Monty”.
I’m a lot younger than you, Robin, you wouldn’t have heard of me.
Monty, I think aislinné is a newby
life’s too short for all that being serious stuff. I can see why my comment might have come across as trollish but I don’t do troll. Bad jokes – yes, troll – no.
Crazy crazy USA strikes again
A clock of mass destruction!
honestly its sh!te like that that’s going to turn him against Americans or even white people in general. engineering teacher should have known better.
It was his English teacher.
Horology.
…seems like Ahmed needs a change of school…
He’s actually blessed that trigger happy American cops didn’t shoot him.
But what if it was a viable device? The school would be praised for their swift action.
In a country like America where shootings in school are rampant, I would expect schools to be on guard.
Yes uncle Sam
Eh… I don’t think a legit terrorist would go to his teacher and say “look what I made!”
I also don’t think a legit terrorist would have a big clock on it and have it make beep sounds. Methinks the teacher was watching too many Hollywood films
School shootings haven’t generally been by Muslims for religious or jihadi reasons. They’re mostly caused by disgruntled white boys bearing grudges.
They would have known pretty quickly it wasn’t a viable device, but still they handcuffed him and brought him to a detention centre from where he was questioned with no parent present as he was not allowed to ring his parents (illegal as he was a junior). They took a mug shot and fingerprints. He was suspended from school for three days for breaking some rule, but the principal still hasn’t said what rule he broke. Ridiculous.
Apparently whatever rule it was came down it being a “hoax bomb”. Where it gets weird though, is that if they initially thought it was a bomb why they never once contacted the bomb squad, just the police. They never sent an alert out or attempted an evacuation, so seems to me that the safety of the students was not the first priority here.
Tick tock
Obviously “Muslim + clock = Bomb”. The world has gone mad. You would wonder if it was a white Catholic who brought this into school would they have acted so harshly
Maybe in the north twenty years ago
To be fair to the police, they were contact with a bomb threat by a staff member of a school. Obviously, looking at the picture, the device looks suspicious and needed to be identified by specialists while detaining the reported suspect. I can imagine there would be twice as much uproar if the school had contacted the police and they gave a half arsed effort and it there ended up being a real threat. Everyone is feeling sorry for the kid who made the homemade clock and brought it to his school in a briefcase, but it was necessary to make sure it wasn’t a bomb considering past events.
Perhaps it could have been a home made and self assembled nuclear bomb. One can never be too sure what an average and everyday student might be doing. Shoot them dead first, just in case. Take no chances.
no one needed to be cuffed though… right?!!
According to reports from Texas the bomb squad WEREN’T contacted. Read into that what you will.
omg a clock can’t harm anyone
This article has a picture of what the device loos like http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/55f96557e4b0b48f6701519c .
It really doesn’t look like a clock and I guess the teacher had to report it as she didn’t know what it was.
ok but no one needed to be cuffed… …right?!!
They decided to arrest him anyway, accusing him of a “hoax bomb”.
I heard him on the radio today, he played the ” because im a muslim” sad so bloody sad. If he thought that did he do it on purpose.
keh?
Von you are a fool
A clock?
Thought it was a Glock.
People are genuinely very afraid and on high alert. It’s a sad reflection of that fear what happened in this case. Unfortunately muslims in general are under scrutiny but terrorists are hidden among us in all walks of society nowadays. People are extra vigilant and unfortunately have to be. Not a nice experience for this young man but it’s a case of being better safe than sorry.
are tried to make it not look like a threatening bomb by sticking a tie on it looks like he didn’t try hard enough
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