A CLARE mother has revealed her traumatic experience in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) after being left in the same room as her son after he had allegedly assaulted her for the first time.
John has been diagnosed with Autism, Intellectual Disability, Tourette’s Syndrome and Temporal Sequencing Disorder. Until January 2021, John was consistently described as very gentle with no major issues recorded.
The first time John (not his real name), allegedly struck his mother, Mary (not her real name), she said she had to get the Gardaí and ambulance and they both ended up in UHL on April 23, 2021.
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East Clare correspondent, Dan Danaher is a journalism graduate of Rathmines and UL. He has won numerous awards for special investigations on health, justice, environment, and reports on news, agriculture, disability, mental health and community.