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.
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.
[5] The child had a history of often being sick, and had pre-existing bone fractures in her spine dating from a time several weeks before her death when she had been taken on a family vacation and had not been in the care of the nanny.
The District Attorney for Middlesex County, Marian Ryan said: "Based on an assessment of the present state of the evidence, including the amended ruling from the medical examiner who performed the autopsy, the Commonwealth cannot meet its burden of proof.
"[7] Brady McCarthy had been in the United States unlawfully since 2002 after overstaying a visa,[2] and she was then arrested by U.S. immigration authorities, who allowed her to return on her own to Ireland in lieu of her potential deportation.