Aisling Brady McCarthy
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Aisling Brady McCarthy is an Irishwoman who, at age 34 in April 2013, was charged with the first-degree murder of a 1-year-old girl, Rehma Sabir, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[1] Brady McCarthy had been the child's nanny for the previous six months, and had been unlawfully in the United States since 2002, living in the Boston area.[2] Her case and subsequent trial received international attention, and similarities were drawn with the case of Louise Woodward, a 19-year-old British nanny who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after an eight-month-old child in her care died from a fractured skull and subdural hematoma in 1997.[3][2] The charges against Brady McCarthy were dropped two years later, after it was determined that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that the child was murdered.
On the afternoon of 14 January 2013, police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, responded to an emergency call reporting an unresponsive child. The baby was found breathing but unconscious, and was transported to Boston Children's Hospital and diagnosed with subdural and retinal hemorrhaging and cerebral swelling.[1] The child was pronounced brain dead on 16 January, her first birthday.[1]