MA - Rehma Sabir, dies of head trauma on her 1st birthday, Cambridge, 14 Jan 2013

[believe09]

Any images I have located has little one's face blurred out of it.

 

[Jersey*Girl]

Any images I have located has little one's face blurred out of it.

The face that's blurred I think is a boy & was taken from the nanny's default pic from that "sitter" site. I don't think it's Rehma.

 

[believe09]

The face that's blurred I think is a boy & was taken from the nanny's default pic from that "sitter" site. I don't think it's Rehma.

You are right...I havent had enough coffee. :blushing:

 

[fhc]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irish-nanny-pleads-not-guilty-mass-baby-death

An Irish nanny accused of killing a baby who died of what prosecutors say was "abusive head trauma" while in her care pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a murder charge.

Aisling Brady McCarthy, 34, was ordered held without bail at her arraignment on charges of murder and assault and battery on a child.

 

[fhc]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/trial-set-irish-nanny-mass-babys-death

TRIAL SET FOR IRISH NANNY IN MASS. BABY'S DEATH
May. 9 2:11 PM EDT

An April 7, 2014, trial date was set during a hearing Thursday in Middlesex Superior Court. The date is subject to change.

 

[fhc]

Irish nanny who 'slammed baby against the wall' in Boston wants murder charge dismissed because prosecutors 'acted unethically'
Aisling McCarthy Brady, 34, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of infant
Defense claims baby was already 'sick' and 'not normal' before found bruised and unconscious in child's Cambridge home on her first birthday
Defense lawyers have claimed prosecutors acted 'unethically' in how they presented evidence to the grand jury
Also claim there is not enough evidence to pin Brady to the crime


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...secutors-acted-unethically.html#ixzz2bQ816sPe
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[OkieGranny]

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/07/examiners_to_check_baby_body_for_injury

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has been court ordered to cut and section “as expeditiously as possible” the arm and leg bones of a Cambridge baby prosecutors believe was bludgeoned to death last year by her nanny — but who defense attorneys apparently suspect was abused long before then.

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Maureen B. Hogan handed down her ruling Wednesday in the first-degree murder case of Aisling Brady McCarthy.

Her lawyers claimed in court filings they have been trying to wrest Rehma Sabir’s remains from the “sole and exclusive custody” of prosecutors for 18 months.

 

[lillybell]

Poor baby, rip x

This is a shocking story, I wonder if the parents are still behind the nanny now?

 

[Linda7NJ]

Oh, I'd be such a bad juror. the neighbor's comments and her criminal arrest background are enough for me.

However, how could a baby suffer a broken leg or arm and not cry forever and ever? How could the parents not have noticed something was wrong with their child?

Children whose needs are not consistently met learn not to cry. IMO

Baby is wet, cries are ignored.
Baby is hungry, cries are ignored.
When that happens consistently baby learns to simply wait for caregiver....baby learns crying is a waste of time.

All IMO


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[OkieGranny]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irelan...eld-in-us-launch-scathing-defence-278810.html

Aisling Brady McCarthy’s lawyers have a filed a scathing objection to testimony implicating the Cavan nanny in the death of a baby girl in Boston at the beginning of 2013...

Her legal team claimed in a motion filed late Wednesday that Alice Newton, the specialist who carried out the tests, spent no time looking at alternative diagnoses and that the medical director of the child protection programme at Boston Children’s Hospital diagnosed Shaken Baby Syndrome “too quickly.”

 

[AnaTeresa]

While it can be the case that a lot of these child protection programs don't engage in a differential diagnosis when examining a child - this case doesn't sound like one where the child had only a brain injury/retinal problems, or lots of bone fractures but no bruising, etc. It sounds like there was significant evidence indicating abuse.

Not a medical professional, but in my opinion, when you have a head injury + retinal injury + bruising + broken bones + significant amount of blood, you're not looking at a case of osteogenesis imperfecta or some sort of bleeding disorder.

 

[Lovejac]

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinio...or_in_justina_pelletier_custody_battle_is_key

Controversial doctor in Justina Pelletier custody battle is key in nanny murder case

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_op..._s_trial_in_death_of_baby_delayed_until_april

Judge Maureen Hogan set an April 22 trial date for Aisling Brady McCarthy to give defense lawyers more time to test organ and fluid samples taken from the body of the dead child.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.anglocelt.ie/news/roundu...4037799-cavan-nanny-case-put-back-to-october/

Cavan nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy will remain under house arrest in the US for the next six months at least after the date of her murder trial was put back yet again, this time until October 13.

 

[jojo87]

Cleared Irish nanny deported from
US

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34125461

A lot of sympathy for this lady over here at the minute. There have been numerous reports about conditions for inmates in the US pre trial because of this. My gosh it sounds really awful. Shocked she could spend two years in such terrible conditions in a USA jail. Glad she's back home and I hope she can move on with her life.
RIP Rehma Sabir and thoughts with the people who loved this baby.

 

[KateB]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=2887&day=2015-10-13

This is on the Community Calendar linked above now. You can request to be reminded as the date approaches.
Also, those that check this thread regularly, please alert if the trial is delayed or postponed so the calendar can be updated. Thanks.

 

[Rayemonde]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=2887&day=2015-10-13

This is on the Community Calendar linked above now. You can request to be reminded as the date approaches.
Also, those that check this thread regularly, please alert if the trial is delayed or postponed so the calendar can be updated. Thanks.

The charges have all been dropped - there will be no trial.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

November 2016:

Judge awards $4m to parents of child in high-profile case

A judge awarded $4 million in damages Thursday to a couple who filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their former Cambridge nanny, who they say killed their infant daughter. The nanny, Aisling Brady McCarthy, had been indicted for murder in the highly publicized case, but ultimately charges were dropped after the state medical examiner revised the cause of the infant’s death.

The couple, Sameer Sabir and Nada Siddiqui, wept in the courtroom as their lawyer, former attorney general Martha Coakley, urged the judge to award compensatory and punitive damages in the civil case. Coakley, who once specialized in child abuse prosecutions, described what she said was overwhelming medical and forensic evidence that McCarthy killed 1-year-old Rehma Sabir, through blunt force trauma to her head and excessive shaking.

“She was totally dependent upon her caretaker who, impatient with her crying, tried to silence her,” Coakley said, citing hospital reports and blood evidence at the family’s former Harvard Square apartment.

Coakley said they realize McCarthy doesn’t have the $4 million they requested in the lawsuit and they aren’t trying to stop her from earning a living. Instead, she said, the case was designed to ensure that McCarthy never profits through movie or book deals. Months earlier, the couple tried, but failed, to get assurances from McCarthy through private negotiations that she would not seek to profit from the case.

 

[Laura456]

Just read about this on CNN. I will be sending my child to a daycare now.