Irish nanny’s lawyers say baby girl had older fractures

Lawyers for an Irish nanny accused of killing a baby in the US said medical experts hired by prosecutors have concluded that the child suffered bone fractures weeks before her death when she was not in the nanny’s care.

Aisling Brady McCarthy’s lawyers said in a written motion that prosecutors recently gave them reports from two medical experts — one at Children’s Hospital in Boston and the other at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami.

They found that compression fractures to Rehma Sabir’s spine were inflicted three to four weeks before her death in January 2013.