Baby fined EUR150 for littering.. while she fights for her life in hospital.Byline: BY MICHELLE MICHELLE Mid-Infrared Echelle Spectrograph O'KEEFFE COUNCIL chiefs fined an eight-month-old baby for littering while she was in hospital fighting for her life, it emerged yesterday. Chanelle Barden was ordered to pay a EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 150 fine by Limerick City Council after a bottle of prescription medicine was found in a derelict house in the city. The tot was in Our Lady's Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. in Crumlin, Dublin Crumlin (Irish: Croimghlinn, meaning Crooked Glen) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the Southside of the city between Walkinstown Perrystown Drimnagh and Kimmage. , for five months after she was born with the rare condition gastroschisis - which means her bowels developed outside her body. Her 19-year-old mum Ciara, from Clarina Avenue, was forced to pay EUR300 in total to council jobsworths as they fined both her and her little girl after the rubbish was discovered by litter wardens and traced back to them. Ciara said: "When a letter addressed to Chanelle arrived at the house I thought maybe it was a nice card for her. "I was really shocked when I realised my little eight-month-old daughter was being fined for littering. "She must be the youngest so-called litter bug Litter bug may refer to:
"I don't know for the life of me how the bottle ended up in that house but it did so I can understand how they would send a fine to me but Chanelle's only a baby. How can they fine the both of us? "I was living in Dublin at the time that the litter was found as I stayed with Chanelle in the hospital for five months. "She was very seriously ill A patient is very seriously ill when his or her illness is of such severity that life is imminently endangered. See also seriously ill. as she was born with her insides on the outside and could have died but she is a little fighter and she is fine now. "When my mum went into the council to pay the fines she told the woman in the office it was sent to a baby but she didn't care. "She told my mum she still had to pay both fines. It is just ridiculous. I do intend to appeal and hopefully the council will see how unreasonable they are being fining a baby." Ciara claimed she was left with no choice but to pay the penalty after her landlord had trouble getting paid by the council for the purchase of the house. She said: "City council were paying my rent in the house and the landlord wanted to sell it to them but they delayed until we had the fine paid. "I didn't have the money so I had to ask my mother to pay." A City Council Environmental Department spokesman - which issues such fines - said if a minor was issued with a littering fine then it was done in error. He added: " We do use material evidence to issue littering fines and in such situations, the fine will be sent to the name associated with that evidence. "If that person turns out to be a minor, we are open to reviewing the incident." Community activist Sean O'Neill, who helped the teen mum fight the fine, said: "Ciara has had it tough, her child spent the first five months of her life in hospital and she's a single mother." When a letter for Chanelle arrived I thought it was a nice card ...not a huge fine for littering MUMCIARA CAPTION(S): LETTER Chanelle Barden with litter fine yesterday Picture: PRESS 22; DETAILS Letter sent by council; ANGER Chanelle with mum Ciara and Sean O'Neill at home |
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