illegally after her 2013 arrest on first-degree murder charges for the death of Rehma Sabir, a Cambridge infant in the nanny's care. Immigration officials discovered Brady McCarthy was living in the U.S. She surrendered herself to immigration authorities by a prearranged agreement, after officials agreed to expedite her deportation. While the case is now closed, the debate over what's called shaken baby syndrome goes on.Īlthough no longer facing criminal charges, 36-year-old Brady McCarthy found herself back in government custody Tuesday afternoon. The finding on the cause of death of the 1-year-old in McCarthy's care. The case was dropped on Monday, after a medical examiner changed The former Cambridge nanny who had been charged with murder until this week is back in her native Ireland.Īisling Brady McCarthy says she is glad to be home, and blames police and prosecutors for the case against her, telling The Boston Herald they should "be ashamed of themselves." (Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe/Pool) This article is more than 7 years old. Instead, Tuerkheimer, now a law professor at Northwestern, found a “criminal justice system ill-equipped to vet medical expertise, and even less capable of reversing direction.Aisling Brady McCarthy leaves court proceedings at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn in July. Deborah Tuerkheimer, a former prosecutor who once litigated SBS cases, had thought this handful of victories might catalyze a “massive institutional effort” to overturn similarly-flawed SBS convictions. Edmunds’ case seemed part of a small, yet potentially-ground breaking trend: a recognition by courts that flawed medical testimony could lead to wrongful convictions of defendants for Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). But 12 years later, an appellate court overturned Edmunds’ conviction because, the appeals court held, “a shift in mainstream medical opinion” casts doubt on the accuracy of expert testimony presented at Edmunds’ trial. In 1996, the state of Wisconsin successfully prosecuted Audrey Edmunds for an unspeakable crime: the violent shaking death of a six-month-old girl. Book Review: Flawed Convictions - ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ and the Inertia of Injustice
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