Expert: Baby injuries a ‘textbook case’

A consultant paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby that some of the baby’s injuries represented a “classic textbook case” of baby shaking.

Registered childminder Sandra Higgins, aged 34, is alleged to have caused the injuries to the 10-month-old baby she was minding at her home.

Ms Higgins, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood, Cavan town, has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to the baby on March 28, 2012.