Irish Nanny Accused Of Fatally Assaulting Baby Asks For Phone Records

The Irish nanny who is currently being held in the US on charges of inflicting fatal injuries to a one-year-old baby girl has asked for laptops and mobile phones to be produced as evidence as she pleads her innocence.

Aisling McCarthy Brady, originally from Lavey in county Cavan, has been charged with assault and battery, causing substantial injuries to Rehma Sabir on the baby’s first birthday last month.

Ms McCarthy Brady’s lawyers are now pursuing details of every single person who had contact with the child in the months before her death.

It is being alleged that Ms McCarthy Brady caused severe injures to Rehma Sabir on Monday, January 14th. Police were called to the home of the child’s family where they found the baby breathing but unconscious.

The child was immediately rushed to the children’s hospital in Boston where she was found to be suffering from haemorrhaging of the eyes and swelling of the brain. Doctors noted that there were also numerous older bone fractures to the child that were still in the process of healing.

Ms McCarthy Brady, who could face a murder charge pending post-mortem results, was working as a nanny for Rehma’s parents in Boston.

The incident happened just outside of Boston

The nanny’s legal team are expected to argue that the various older fractures found on the child could not have been delivered by her. They are expected to refer to the fact that the family was travelling abroad without Ms McCarthy Brady in the weeks just before the child died.

Melinda L. Thompson, Ms McCarthy Brady’s lawyer, has reportedly asked for laptops, hard drives, emails, voicemails, text messages, toll records, mobile phones, medical records, daily journals, travel records and immigration records.

She has also specifically asked for the travel itinerary of baby Rehma from June 2012 to January 2013, “including who she travelled with, where she stayed and whether she was examined by medical personnel during her extensive travel abroad.”

“I have gone through the police report line by line, over and over again. I can’t sleep, thinking about this. Things just don’t add up,” said Ms Thompson, speaking about the case.

“I believe Aisling Brady never harmed that child,” she added.