Name Aisling McCarthy | ||
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Similar Margaretta D'Arcy, Thomas Murphy (Irish republican), Brian Brendan Wright | ||
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. Brady McCarthy had been the child's nanny for the previous six months. Her case and subsequent trial received international attention and similarities were drawn with the British nanny Louise Woodward.
Many aspects of the charge against Brady McCarthy led to calls for a review of the evidence. On 1 September 2015, having served 27 months in a United States prison, and a further 3 months under House Arrest in Massachusetts, all charges against Aisling were dropped when the initial evidence of the child being murdered was accepted as unreliable. The DA for Middlesex County, Massachusetts 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."
Efforts by the Irish government to repatriate her to Ireland as soon as possible are currently underway.
