"Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy says she is considering legal action against US prosecutors. The 37-year-old from Cavan was wrongly charged with the murder of a one-year-old baby who was in her care in 2013. She spent two years in prison in the US, and is now back home in Ireland. Aisling has told the Boston Globe newspaper that she wants to take a
civil action against Newton and Middlesex District Attorney. Elaine
Whitfield-Sharp, is the trial lawyer who defended British nanny Louise
Woodward, says Aisling should go ahead with the action. Ms Whitfield-Sharp said: "I say do it and here's why. First of all she'll never get over this, ever. "Meanwhile she has to document her damages, she probably has some post-traumatic stress disorder. "Obviously she went through some humiliation and shame and there will be physical repercussions from all this emotional trauma." In 2013, prosecutors claimed McCarthy
violently shook Rehma, and could have even bounced her head off a
changing table, allegedly leaving damage to the plaster on the wall."
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Aisling
has told the Boston Globe newspaper that she wants to take a civil
action against (Dr. Alice) Newton and Middlesex District Attorney. Elaine
Whitfield-Sharp, is the trial lawyer who defended British nanny Louise
Woodward, says Aisling should go ahead with the action. Ms Whitfield-Sharp said: "I say do it and here's why. First of all she'll never get over this, ever. "Meanwhile she has to document her damages, she probably has some post-traumatic stress disorder. "Obviously she went through some humiliation and shame and there will be physical repercussions from all this emotional trauma.""
See Daily Mail story: "Today,
the former nanny is planning to sue those who she says 'recklessly'
prosecuted her despite evidence which revealed the infant had been sick
before its tragic death, according to the Boston Globe. She
added that she wants to use the civil courts to hold Dr. Alice Newton,
the doctor who first implicated her in the death of Rehma to justice, as
well as prosecutors and Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan who a
judge found withheld exculpatory evidence, 'They weren't just wrong in my case, they were reckless,' McCarthy told the Boston Globe.
'And they never lost a minute's sleep. They just moved on to the next
case. I want to expose this because I don't want it to happen to anyone
else.' .........McCarthy's
lawyers argued that she is innocent and that Rehma had been injured
weeks before, when McCarthy was nowhere near her, and was also an ill
child who had a bleeding disorder. 'Ms
McCarthy was put in jail for two-and-a-half years over a crime that
never occurred,' her lawyer, Melinda Thompson, told the Globe, according
to the Irish Times. 'Not just a crime that she did not commit, but a crime that did not occur.'Middlesex
DA Ryan had announced in August last year that the murder charge was
dropped because the medical examiner issued an amended ruling changing
the manner of death from 'homicide' to 'undetermined'. Ryan said the medical examiner found Rehma had prior medical issues and may have had some type of undiagnosed disorder."
