Court documents reveal baby Rehma’s last few hours

Harrowing detail of the last few hours of Rehma Sabir’s life have emerged in a “statement of probable cause” presented at Aisling McCarthy Brady’s court appearance.

Emergency services were called to her parents’ home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just after 4.20pm on Monday, Jan 14. When they arrived, the 1-year-old was found breathing but unconscious. As she was rushed to hospital she stopped breathing for up to five seconds at a time and her heart stopped for brief periods.

Over the next two days, as well as making all attempts to save the baby’s life, doctors carried out a barrage of tests which showed she had suffered, among other things, bleeding of her brain and her eyes and “massive” brain swelling. Scans revealed she had a number of “healing fractures” including spinal compression fractures, and fractures of her elbow, shin, and calf bone. It was estimated those fractures were between two weeks and two months old.