Baby’s injuries ‘did not happen before minding’

Expert tells childminder’s trial brain injury could not reasonably have occurred before day of minding

A consultant paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder accused of assaulting a baby that it was not reasonable to suggest that brain injuries suffered by the baby happened before she was left with her childminder.

Registered childminder Sandra Higgins is alleged to have caused the injuries to the 10-month-old baby she was minding at her home by shaking the child.