A blanket, bloody pillow and wipes were found in a baby's crib who died. Sky News reported that the baby died after being assaulted by her nanny and died.
Aisling McCarthy Brady, 34, from Quincy Massachusetts was the sole person caring for the one year old baby when the child suffered injuries to her head. The baby, Rehma Sabir, died two days later in the hospital because of brain damage, reported Sky News.
The babay was found to have multiple bone fractures. Brady was illegally living in America and is an Irish immigrant.
Sky News reported that she is being held on bail for $5,000 after pleading not guilty for assault and battery on the child.
"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," Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said to Sky News."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."
The AP reported that the baby was hospitalized on Jan. 14 which was her first birthday. She passed away two days later.
Court documents that were filed say concerned neighbors heard a child crying.
"An upstairs neighbor told police that on the day the baby was hospitalized, she heard the infant crying for almost an hour before it changed to "extreme crying." The woman said she knocked on the front door of the apartment for about 90 seconds, timing the knocks in between the baby's gasping so it would be heard by someone inside," reported the AP.
The neighbor's knocks were not answered and police said that she told them she heard the baby crying for another 10 minutes. "It started to slow and settle down before stopping completely," police said to the AP.
When police searched the baby's room they found a bloody blanket and pillow in her crib. There were also wipes with blood on them in the diaper pail.
"Abusive head trauma includes injuries caused by violent shaking as well as impact to the head either by directly striking the head or causing the head to strike another object or surface," said Dr. Alice Newton in the documents, reported the AP. Newton is the medical director of the Child Protection Team at Boston Children's Hospital.
The baby's parents Sameer Sabir and Nada Siddiqui said to police that Aisling had bee their nanny for six months. State police also said that Brady was watching another baby the day that Rehma was put in the hospital but the other infant was not harmed.
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