Woman Sent To Gaol For Taking Babies
(Rec 8 p.m.) BELFAST, Jan. 19. Mrs Barbara M’Geehan, aged 40, a Belfast housewife, who took two children from prams in a Dublin street, was sentenced today to two years in gaol. The first child disappeared four years ago. Last December M’Geehan returned to the same street and took a nine-months-old boy from a pram, the Court was told. She pleaded guilty to two charges of having detained the two children, Patrick Berrigan and Elizabeth Brown, with intent to deprive their parents of their possession. She was sentenced to two years imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. M’Geehan is the wife of a Belfast Corporation worker. She is the mother of an 18-year-old son.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27563, 21 January 1955, Page 11
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