Bulletin: "Aisling Brady McCarthy: Aftermath (5): Defence lawyer Melinda Thompson explains where her faith in Aisling Brady McCarthy came from: "“What I was provided with,” she said, “just didn’t seem to add up. The theory was that throughout the course of that day, sometime before the parents came home, my client shook the child with the force of a motor vehicle collision causing severe brain injuries and then smashed her down on a changing table, causing the thoracic vertebrae to break. That just struck me as something that was impossible.” Lost in the volatile emotion of the moment was the fact that McCarthy had been caring for Rehma Sabir for several months before her death. For several weeks prior to her death, the parents had been traveling abroad with a sickly child to England, India and Saudi Arabia.Rehma Sabir’s chronic health issues got lost in those first incendiary police reports, and the questionable medical analysis of Dr. Alice Newton of Children’s Hospital. When the child was rushed to Children’s Hospital, her nanny kept a vigil at Rehma’s bedside beside her parents, even rushing back to their Cambridge apartment to get them a change of clothes. “Everybody was misled.” (Boston Herald)'

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"Yesterday, I asked her (defence lawyer Melinda Thompson) where her faith in McCarthy came from. “What I was provided with,” she said, “just didn’t seem to add up. The theory was that throughout the course of that day, sometime before the parents came home, my client shook the child with the force of a motor vehicle collision causing severe brain injuries and then smashed her down on a changing table, causing the thoracic vertebrae to break. That just struck me as something that was impossible.” Lost in the volatile emotion of the moment was the fact that McCarthy had been caring for Rehma Sabir for several months before her death. For several weeks prior to her death, the parents had been traveling abroad with a sickly child to England, India and Saudi Arabia.Rehma Sabir’s chronic health issues got lost in those first incendiary police reports, and the questionable medical analysis of Dr. Alice Newton of Children’s Hospital. When the child was rushed to Children’s Hospital, her nanny kept a vigil at Rehma’s bedside beside her parents, even rushing back to their Cambridge apartment to get them a change of clothes. “Everybody was misled,” Thompson said yesterday, after Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan conceded that she had no case. “This isn’t a whodunit and we got the wrong person,” said Thompson, a former Middlesex prosecutor. “This is about a person being charged with a crime that didn’t occur. And if they had done a thorough investigation they would have discovered that before charging.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/08/nanny_lawyer_da_s_case_just_didn_t_seem_to_add_up