Lawyers for Irish nanny held in US launch scathing defence

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.

Rehma Sabir was diagnosed as having being the victim of abusive head trauma when she was brought to Boston Children’s Hospital, having been in the care of Ms McCarthy, who has been held in custody in Boston since the incident occurred in January 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”.