{"id":206449,"date":"2025-12-23T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206449\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:15:09","slug":"mum-dragged-from-bed-and-beaten-by-intruder-she-recognised-as-former-babysitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206449\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum \u2018dragged from bed and beaten by intruder she recognised as former babysitter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dublin court. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d212bc8b-d71b-4a8d-aa5e-c7b55db2a4c4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dublin court. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A sleeping mother was dragged from her bed and beaten by a home intruder who she recognised as a man who used to babysit for her when the mask slipped from his face, it is alleged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">According to garda\u00ed, Clive Sweeney (41) broke into the terrified woman\u2019s house, struck her with a crowbar, threatened to kill her and \u201cdestroy her face\u201d and only left when \u201cpanicked\u201d by a noise outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin court. Stock image A sleeping mother was dragged from her bed and beaten by a home intruder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10747,9924,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-206449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andrew-phelan","tag-dublin-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}