A troubled 15-year-old girl whom a health board had been unable to find since late July has been arrested and placed in a State detention centre, the High Court heard yesterday.
On November 14th Mr Justice Kelly issued a warrant directing the Garda to search for, arrest the girl and detain her in a secure centre pending her transfer to another unit where a place was available for her.
The judge was told then that the girl was believed to be pregnant and to have left the State with a 23-year-old man with whom she was said to be having a relationship. The girl comes from a very disturbed family background and the case of one of her brothers has been before the High Court many times.