Cavan nanny charged with injuring baby in Boston - Charges Dropped

GastroBoy

http://m.rte.ie/news/touch/2013/0123/364032-aisling-mccarthy-brady-boston/

Sad news.

Sunnyisland

http://m.rte.ie/news/touch/2013/0123/364032-aisling-mccarthy-brady-boston/

An Irish nanny in Boston has been charged with injuring a baby girl in her care who later died.
Aisling McCarthy Brady, 34, from Co Cavan, has been living in the US since 2002.
She was arrested on a charge of assault and battery of a child, causing substantial bodily injury on 14 January, which was the baby's first birthday.
The baby, Rehma Sabir, died two days later in hospital.
Ms McCarthy Brady entered a plea of not guilty to the charges yesterday and was released on $500,000 bail.
She is due back in court on 22 February.
Prosecutors said they anticipate she will face a murder charge, once a post mortem on the baby is completed.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said Ms McCarthy Brady overstayed her 90-day authorization to stay in the US after entering in 2002 and never left.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said: "This is an extremely troubling case, where we allege the defendant violently assaulted a one-year-old child, causing a devastating head injury and broken bones.
"Children are our most vulnerable victims and where, as here, the offender has been entrusted with the care of a child who depends on them, the allegations are all the more egregious."
Police said they were called to a house in Ash Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, shortly before 5pm on 14 January where they found Rehma unconscious.
She was taken to Boston Children's Hospital where she was treated for bleeding to her brain and eyes.
Rehma was also found to have multiple healing bone fractures.
The Boston Herald has reported that Rehma's father is from London and her mother is from Karachi, Pakistan.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said: "We are aware of the case and have been in contact with the family.
"We are ready to provide any consular assistance if it is needed."


Sad news indeed for the unfortunate child.

ColeTrain

She paid 500,000 bail? There were a few mattresses turned over in Cavan I bet

Fluffycloud

Dreadful disturbing news. Poor baby. Rip. little angel. X

Plazaman

Heard her defence lawyer on the news this morning, "She loves children, she wouldn't hurt a child". That was it, I'm hoping they just used a soundbite and that wasn't all they got.

Poor wee kid, hope justice is served.

hardCopy

ColeTrain wrote: »

She paid 500,000 bail? There were a few mattresses turned over in Cavan I bet

Bail is usually paid by a bondsman. The money is returned when you show up for court and the bondsman charges you a percentage.

Hence Dog and Leland chasing your ass down if you fail to show up.

mikemac1

Other sources gave more info

From a Boston website
http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Nanny-charged-after-baby-dies-of-massive-head-trauma/-/11971628/18221704/-/g6s9jgz/-/index.html

The baby also showed signs of previous injuries that had started healing, prosecutors said.


Defense attorney Melinda Thompson said McCarthy Brady is innocent and the injuries may have happened during family trips to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or London while the child was not in the nanny's care. Thompson also said the baby was diagnosed as malnourished by a doctor.

The wealthy ex-pat parents are from the UK & Pakistan and it seems the nanny didn't go on these worldwide trips.

Death and Taxes

Case has yet to be tried and evidence produced so maybe we should avoid speculating until said trial.

fasttalkerchat

Terrible case. Hopefully she is innocent... it all depends on what other evidence goes against the parents.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mikemac1 wrote: »

Other sources gave more info

From a Boston website
http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Nanny-charged-after-baby-dies-of-massive-head-trauma/-/11971628/18221704/-/g6s9jgz/-/index.html




The wealthy ex-pat parents are from the UK & Pakistan and it seems the nanny didn't go on these worldwide trips.

Parents have a bit of explainign to do here is this is the case, but surely the nanny would have known about if before the night the baby died.l.?

_Kaiser_

From the BreakingNews version:

“Through their investigation, including interviews with witnesses, police determined that the defendant had sole custody of and contact with the child during the time that she sustained injuries consistent with abusive head trauma.”

But also...

Brady’s defence lawyer ..... Ms Thompson added that her client did “nothing wrong” and has strong support from both former clients and those in the Irish community.

She said: “She loved that child.

Seems that this woman is an illegal as well:

Immigration authorities said Brady arrived from Ireland in 2002 and was only permitted to stay for 90 days.

Hard to know what to believe yet really but I think speculation should be discouraged at this point.

endacl

A dead child (very sad) and an Irish person involved (irrelevant really).

Lock this thread before AH really gets its teeth stuck in. These ones never work out well...

Chuck Stone

This case is probably going to turn into one of those Liouse Woodward type fiascos.

E.S.T.

I am in Boston and this is all over the news here. Media reporting that she has a history or violence, 2 restraining orders and 1 assault case in the past.

The Quincy nanny charged in a monstrous assault of a 1-year-old Cambridge girl on her birthday is a brawling, beer bottle-tossing Irish illegal alien with a history of run-ins with the law — including, records say, biting a roommate after a night out at a bar and once telling an ex-lover she’d make his life “a living hell.”

Aisling McCarthy Brady, 34, is accused of the heartless assault of tiny Rehma Sabir, who was left with “massive brain swelling” after the alleged Jan. 14 attack inside her Cambridge apartment building on Ash Street and died two days later at Children’s Hospital in Boston, prosecutors said.

“When I found out she was a nanny, it crossed my mind to find that family and tell them how she is violent and aggressive,” Quincy neighbor Thomas Collins said of Brady.

Continued

fasttalkerchat

E.S.T. wrote: »

I am in Boston and this is all over the news here. Media reporting that she has a history or violence, 2 restraining orders and 1 assault case in the past.

Where do these records come from? If she was in court surely immigration would have picked her up?

_Kaiser_

E.S.T. wrote: »

I am in Boston and this is all over the news here. Media reporting that she has a history or violence, 2 restraining orders and 1 assault case in the past.

To be fair that report sounds a bit like the local Sun

and once telling an ex-lover she’d make his life “a living hell.”

I'm sure she's not the first man/woman to say something like that after a break-up. Nor does the fact she got into drunken rows (just walk through any city in Ireland late on a Saturday night). Doesn't mean she murdered a child though.

We'll just have to wait and see what the trial finds and if she IS guilty then let justice be swift.

E.S.T.

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Where do these records come from? If she was in court surely immigration would have picked her up?

For restraining orders I don't think you even have to show up at the court unless you want to fight it. Also I don't think they would check legal status anyway because it might cause victims to decide not to take them out. With the assault it is probably a misdemeanor and they focus on holding people arrested on felonies and in Massachusetts they have never really gone after illegals compared to some of the other states.

zef

The Louise Woodward case was awful - televised and everything (but i did think she was guilty)
However a baby of a wealthy family malnourished? And with previous fractures- surely the parents should have noticed something was wrong.

Heroditas

brawling, beer bottle-tossing Irish illegal alien

Sounds like something you'd read in the Sun.


EDIT: damn you Kaiser!

yosser hughes

zef wrote: »

The Louise Woodward case was awful - televised and everything (but i did think she was guilty)
However a baby of a wealthy family malnourished? And with previous fractures- surely the parents should have noticed something was wrong.

I thought she was found to be innocent in the end?

E.S.T.

yosser hughes wrote: »

I thought she was found to be innocent in the end?

No, the judge just downgraded the charge to manslaughter and sentenced her to time served. This is the same county so it would be the same district attorney office that would be prosecuting it.

zef

She was found innocent i think - altho stand corrected by post above.

That Boston Herald is really hamming it up with the picture they are painting of this Cavan girl.

E.S.T.

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

To be fair that report sounds a bit like the local Sun

Heroditas wrote: »

Sounds like something you'd read in the Sun.

That is conservative paper and it used to be owned by Murdoch but even the liberal Boston Globe talks about her prior history.

In 2007, Brady was charged with assault and battery for allegedly attacking her female roommate at the time in Dorchester, though the case was eventually dismissed.

According to a police report, both women had been at a pub earlier in the evening and started arguing when they came home.

The roommate “had a laceration to her right pinky finger which she claimed was a bite received from Brady,” the report said.

The woman also had a bite mark on her right bicep. But police found that Brady had lacerations on her face, a bite mark on her calf, and a bite mark on her hip and thigh, according to the report.

Her roommate was also arrested after the fight.

Two years earlier, a man had filed a restraining order against Brady after she allegedly attacked him in June 2005 “in a bar room for talking to a lady friend, this time hitting and scraping me in the face with closed fists and her finger nails repeatedly,” the man wrote in his complaint.

“I’m afraid of the day that it’s going to be a beer bottle she hits me with, or worse,” he said.

The man said Brady had previously thrown an empty beer bottle at a woman who was talking with him, and made a threatening phone call to another woman “saying to stay clear of me, as I belonged to her ... In April [2005] she slander [sic] another girlfriend calling her a home wrecker and saying that she stole her husband and she was going to pay.”

Brady was the subject of another restraining order last March, when a woman took out a restraining order against her, claiming that she “texted me and accused me of taking her student that was arriving from Ireland in a week,” the complaint states.

The woman also alleged that Brady set up a fake Facebook profile in her name, falsely accused her of abusing children, and harassed her boss, according to the complaint.

During the period in question, a marriage counselor called the woman unsolicited to make an appointment, and multiple people called her to make funeral arrangements that she had not requested, the complaint stated.

Continued

endacl

E.S.T. wrote: »

No, the judge just downgraded the charge to manslaughter and sentenced her to time served. This is the same county so it would be the same district attorney office that would be prosecuting it.

The chief prosecuting witness subsequently stated that with new developments in mri scanning and understanding of head injuries, his evidence would have been entirely different. Also, there was a selective understanding of the word 'popped'. A proposition to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts was overturned, largely argued on the outcome of the woodward case.

Of course, she is connected with the death of a child, and this fact will follow her for ever.

If the dead child was 20, and the accused was from Italy, this thread wouldn't exist. I predict an AH shambles. Will read like the comments on one of those ridiculous facebook sheepshare viral posts.

GoodisonPark

Strange that US Immigration didnt pick her up after the 2007 charge if she is illegal there.

xzanti

RIP to the poor child... tragic beyond words..

As said already.. I hope justice prevails..

At first glance it looks like one of those cases that will go on and on..

GoodisonPark

Just read the Boston Hearld report , that was $500,000 CASH bail.

fasttalkerchat

GoodisonPark wrote: »

Just read the Boston Hearld report , that was $500,000 CASH bail.

Doesn't mean that she paid it. For more info turn over to Sky 1 now

GoodisonPark

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Doesn't mean that she paid it. For more info turn over to Sky 1 now

Bail Bond would have been 10% up front.
Cant see a Bail Bonder getting involved here as she is an illegal alien and a flight risk.

fishy fishy

it will be interesting to see how "old" the "healing bones" were on the child. If this person was only working with the child for six months. I love all the "judges" that have come out of the woodwork all of a sudden going on about how bad she is. Especially the neighbour who was upset with loud music coming from her house. Try not to judge someone on the scant bit of news that has come out of the media. Leave it to the proper judges and the medical evidence.

E.S.T.

GoodisonPark wrote: »

Bail Bond would have been 10% up front.
Cant see a Bail Bonder getting involved here as she is an illegal alien and a flight risk.

Massachusetts doesn't have bondsmen like other states so it is all through the court.

fasttalkerchat

E.S.T. wrote: »

Massachusetts doesn't have bondsmen like other states so it is all through the court.

So how can a $500,000 cash bond be set and how would it have been paid?

E.S.T.

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

So how can a $500,000 cash bond be set and how would it have been paid?

It is basically like not setting bail but if somebody did have the money they would deposit it directly with the court.

hoodwinked

i always wonder about cases like this, as a parent you'd think you'd notice something was wrong but unfortunately a lot of people don't!

SEPT 23 1989

hoodwinked wrote: »

i always wonder about cases like this, as a parent you'd think you'd notice something was wrong but unfortunately a lot of people don't!

Kids get knocks all the time especially as toddlers

this is every parents nightmare you would never forgive yourself

seamus

E.S.T. wrote: »

I am in Boston and this is all over the news here. Media reporting that she has a history or violence, 2 restraining orders and 1 assault case in the past.

“When I found out she was a nanny, it crossed my mind to find that family and tell them how she is violent and aggressive,” Quincy neighbor Thomas Collins said of Brady.

Always need to be skeptical of these twitching curtains types who come out of the woodwork at a time like this.

"I knew she was trouble, just knew it, but inexplicably I never thought to say this to anyone until I had the chance to appear on TV".

Interesting here that everyone involved is a foreign national; nanny & parents. Could be very important in a jury trial.

i always wonder about cases like this, as a parent you'd think you'd notice something was wrong but unfortunately a lot of people don't!

It depends on the situation. In some cases nannies are effectively a surrogate parent because neither of the actual parents are around enough. So the main times the parents may see the child are when she's asleep. Cuts and bruises are easily hidden under clothing and if a child is asleep it's impossible to tell if something is wrong.

ArmaniJeanss

Always fascinated and appalled the way US media can refer to prior charges/arrests/incidents and publish character assasination quotes from prior acquaintances long before the trial has even started.

I think in this area anyway that our blackout rules, once the person is charged then you can effectivly publish nothing other than the bare facts of how the case is processing, is a vastly superior and fairer system.

E.S.T.

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Always fascinated and appalled the way US media can refer to prior charges/arrests/incidents and publish character assasination quotes from prior acquaintances long before the trial has even started.

I think in this area anyway that our blackout rules, once the person is charged then you can effectivly publish nothing other than the bare facts of how the case is processing, is a vastly superior and fairer system.

Yea it is great in Ireland where people have to rely on rumors and "known to Gardai" type statements. I don't agree with using the neighbors quotes but then again it sounds like he has had quite a few problems with her. The other quotes are from application forms of the restraining orders that have been taken out against her. Her arrest record is what it is and there is no reason to not publish it.

Allyall

E.S.T. wrote: »

Yea it is great in Ireland where people have to rely on rumors and "known to Gardai" type statements. I don't agree with using the neighbors quotes but then again it sounds like he has had quite a few problems with her. The other quotes are from application forms of the restraining orders that have been taken out against her. Her arrest record is what it is and there is no reason to not publish it.

..Other than the fact that it paints a bad picture of her, and to some people makes her look guilty already, even though nothing has happened with the case yet, including most importantly, appointing a Jury, who will have undoubtedly read all of those stories already.

It makes it harder for her defence and easier for the prosecution to sway the jury.

E.S.T.

Allyall wrote: »

..Other than the fact that it paints a bad picture of her, and to some people makes her look guilty already, even though nothing has happened with the case yet, including most importantly, appointing a Jury, who will have undoubtedly read all of those stories already.

It makes it harder for her defence and easier for the prosecution to sway the jury.

That is what jury selection is for and it is not really uncommon for some people in the US to not read a newspaper or watch local news.

Death and Taxes

E.S.T. wrote: »

Yea it is great in Ireland where people have to rely on rumors and "known to Gardai" type statements. I don't agree with using the neighbors quotes but then again it sounds like he has had quite a few problems with her. The other quotes are from application forms of the restraining orders that have been taken out against her. Her arrest record is what it is and there is no reason to not publish it.

In Ireland it could not be published before the trial as the matter is Sub Judice.
It would not be allowed into evidence in court as its predjudicial effect would far outweigh its probative value.
TBH I'm not sure that we should even be engaging in conjecture and speculation at this point as no trial has been held and no evidence presented.

Allyall

U.S., Ireland, Australia, U.K., Lithuania etc.

No matter what way it's done, there are going to be flaws in the system, but one common factor is that the media will always make it worse.


Hope justice is served on the correct party whoever it is. The poor kid never stood a chance, less then a year old and having broken bones and scrapes. Shouldn't happen anywhere to anyone.

Lollipops23

Allyall wrote: »

Hope justice is served on the correct party whoever it is. The poor kid never stood a chance, less then a year old and having broken bones and scrapes. Shouldn't happen anywhere to anyone.

It breaks my heart to think that the baby was being beaten/abused and nobody picked up on it...

Hope they get to the bottom of this whole thing and that it's not going to be Louise Woodward all over again, trial-by-media style.

mitosis

E.S.T. wrote: »

That is conservative paper and it used to be owned by Murdoch but even the liberal Boston Globe talks about her prior history.

She sounds like a classy lady

mike65

RTE News Now to have wall to wall coverage?

Keitho

This story is just heartbreaking, the poor little child. RIP

However we should hold off on making assumptions on the girl's guilt until proper evidence is brought forward.

ThreeLineWhip

Even if acquitted she will be deported back to Cavan tout suite.

All that this will do is start a witch hunt for illegals in the Boston area.

woodoo

I think the parents should be thoroughly investigated too. Something a little fishy about this case. How could the parents not have known about previous fractures on their child?

E.S.T.

woodoo wrote: »

I think the parents should be thoroughly investigated too. Something a little fishy about this case. How could the parents not have known about previous fractures on their child?

Probably cause babies can't speak and with darker skinned people bruises don't stand out as predominantly as whites. That is before you even consider that fractures don't always cause bruising.

Lollipops23

woodoo wrote: »

I think the parents should be thoroughly investigated too. Something a little fishy about this case. How could the parents not have known about previous fractures on their child?

I wondered that too, but it happens. I still feel like we're not getting the whole story on this, I'd say it'll all come out in the wash during her trial.

woodoo

E.S.T. wrote: »

Probably cause babies can't speak and with darker skinned people bruises don't stand out as predominantly as whites. That is before you even consider that fractures don't always cause bruising.

What about pain. I have had fractures and if i was touched on that limp i would have recoiled. If you were lifting and laying your child regularly you wouldn't be long recognising where pain was emanating from imo.