Dr. Cl?ona Saidl?ar:

The age of criminal liability is ten. There is a special provision that the Director of Public Prosecutions must consent to the prosecution of a child aged under 14. That point would be the safeguard for us for that child in terms of that adjudication. The ignorance of the law is not a defence of course. The normal interrogation goes on in terms of how someone argues whether they took reasonable steps.