VIDEO: ‘Experts rowed about how long she’d live’

A mother and father who waited eight years for an apology from the State for the injuries caused to their daughter at birth were forced to listen to experts argue about how long she might live in an effort to secure a final settlement.

Sonya Butler described as “horrendous” and “absolutely disgusting” their two weeks in the High Court earlier this year where she said the State lined up “mathematicians from overseas using their statistics to prove why children like Alex die young”.

Alex Butler is quadraplegic and has cerebral palsy after injuries she suffered at birth in Waterford Regional Hospital on April 12, 2005.