Woman avoids jail for manipulating vulnerable man to pose as father of her child so she could get Irish passport

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Olivia Kelleher

A woman has received a three-year suspended sentence for manipulating a vulnerable man into pretending he was the father of her child so that she could get citizenship for her family.

Cork Circuit Criminal Court was told that the 45-year-old obtained citizenship for herself, her husband and her children after she provided false information to the State.