A teenage girl has been detained for three months for travelling in a stolen Mercedes car which was raced through Dublin's north inner city and then crashed into a wall.
The 17-year-old girl from the north inner city had claimed at her hearing last year she did not know that the car in which she was a passenger was stolen.
The Dublin Children's Court had heard that the car was taken during a burglary.
The driver, believed to have been a teenager, got out of the car and jumped over a wall to escape, the court heard. However, he left the defendant and two other teenage girls in the back of the car.
Judge Mary Collins was told that the girl refused to reveal the identity of the driver to gardaí.
The girl had claimed in evidence that she did not know the car was stolen or who the driver was. She said she had taken a lift home from the city's south side where she had been at a party.
The case was adjourned last July for a probation report but the girl subsequently skipped court.
Judge Collins further noted yesterday that the girl had not attended any meetings with the probation workers.
The judge also said she had warned the girl to co-operate with probation workers or she would be sent to jail. "When I make an order I do not go back on it," she said in sentencing the girl to three months in Mountjoy.