Gardai are investigating an alleged indecent assault on a child in south county Dublin<\/p>\n
The attack is alleged to have taken place in Saggart yesterday.<\/p>\n
The young girl who was in the care of Tusla was reported missing yesterday.<\/p>\n
The garda\u00ed had been alerted and had commenced a missing persons inquiry.<\/p>\n
However, the child subsequently returned and alleged to her carers that she had been indecently assaulted.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed were called to the scene and commenced a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n
A man in his 20s was subsequently arrested on suspicion of indecently assaulting the child.<\/p>\n
He is being detained at a garda station in Dublin under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and can be questioned for up to 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are still trying to establish the facts of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n
They are engaging specialist child interviewers to speak to the child to try to determine what happened.<\/p>\n
Two locations near the Citywest complex were sealed off today for forensic examination, but both cordons have now been lifted.<\/p>\n
CCTV has also been gathered in the area and from the nearby Luas stop.<\/p>\n
The child has also received medical attention.<\/p>\n
Tusla have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n
In a statement this evening, Garda Headquarters said garda\u00ed are investigating an alleged assault of a female juvenile reported to have occurred at Saggart, Co. Dublin today.<\/p>\n
“A male has been arrested and is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda Station in the Dublin region,” it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gardai are investigating an alleged indecent assault on a child in south county Dublin The attack is alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-93241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93241","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=93241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}