Please take down hospital pictures, says sister of Limerick girl beaten on roadside

Sean Ryan

The sister of a girl who was badly beaten on a roadside on the Tipperary-Limerick border has appealed for people to take down graphic photos from social media.

Scarlett Faulkner, aged in her 20s, from the northside of Limerick city, was viciously beaten by individuals armed with weapons at the side of the R494 road in Birdhill, Co Tipperary on Saturday evening March 21st.

The motive is not known at this time. She was airlifted to Limerick University Hospital after the incident before being transferred to Cork University Hospital where she remains in a critical condition.

Now it has been revealed that a graphic photo of Scarlett in hospital has been shared widely on social media. It shows the extent of the injuries she suffered in the horrific incident.

In a very emotional post on social media, her sister Victoria asked people to take down any photos of her sister in hospital.

She said: “Please, I am begging ye take the picture down off your pages... Half of my family wouldn't go in to see her and my father didn't see her yet.

"Please can ye all delete the picture - we are going through enough’’.

She also shared pictures of her father visiting a grotto in Limerick to pray for her sister.

Victoria also said: "I love you with all my heart you will always be my best friend and big sister. My heart is shattered in 1 million pieces... god please don't do this to us’’.

Meanwhile, the Chaplain to the Travelling Community in Limerick, Fr Pat Hogan, said: "We don't need such violence in our society and we don't need our children seeing it.

"It is our duty as adults and as parents to bring our children up in a non-violent place’’.

Gardaí said on Sunday that they are aware of video footage of the incident circulating online and ask members of the public not to share it on social media platforms or messaging apps, but instead to provide it to investigating gardaí.