A man appeared at a special sitting of a district court tonight charged with four counts of assault causing harm.
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35-year-old Stephen Harnett with an address of Kilpoole Upper, Wicklow, appeared before the court wearing a grey tracksuit.
Gardaí and emergency services were called to a house in Blainroe, at about 7.30pm on Friday night. Four children were taken to hospital.
Harnett was remanded in custody at Cloverhill District Court until next Thursday at 10.30am.
It is believed that the suspect went into the house and tried to strangle the children.
A man in his mid-30s remains in police custody, the Garda confirmed.
Gardai at the scene where four children were found seriously injured in County Wicklow.
The youngsters have now been released from hospital. The other two children were taken to the hospital by ambulance.
The scene is preserved for technical examination.
They are aged between 3 and 11 years old and the man is now at Wicklow Garda Station.
She said: “They’re all so upset and distressed to think that any family would be undergoing trauma like that”.
“I suppose they are just concerned that maybe there was something that could be done that we hadn’t done as a community”.
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Rev Roche described the incident as an “unbelievable tragedy” and said the children were from the area.
