Irish nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady arrested after death of baby in Boston

Having conflicts with other people, i.e. a former boyfriend, a roommate, or even making a fake facebook page does not make a person a child abuser or murderer. That's just preposterous. I think she's being made a scapegoat. The parents need to be questioned thoroughly.

some thing about this story is not adding up for me, the healing fractures have me baffled that no body noticed these before this and the baby's father is a doctor,cant wait for the Autopsy

My condolences to the family on this unthinkable tragedy. I urge everyone to keep an open mind about this case, and I am encouraged to see that a number of commenters already are. Difficult as it is to believe if you haven't seen it personally, doctors trained with a flawed model of infant head injury have been over-diagnosing abuse for decades. For the basic scoop, and links to other cases, do a search on "On SBS: A Forensic Misadventure"

Irish Central omitted reports of Nanny Aisling's earlier court appearances on charges of assault and harassment. She posted a facebook page under the name of a woman with whom she was fighting, bit another woman, and thrown beer bottles at another. She's also threatened former boyfriends. Nanny Aisling should not have had any children in her care at any time.

I guarantee she will be found innocent. The baby suffered from Brittle Bone Disease. Shaken Baby Syndrome does not exist in the UK and is not allowed to be used by the CPS because so many cases have been overturned on appeal. Nobody has ever witnessed a baby being shaken to death, in fact there are many videos of babies being shaken and when they were examined, none of the ever exhibited the Triad of Symptoms described as SBS. Hopefully this case will put the SBS theory to bed forever. The tragedy with SBS is not only are many innocent people accused, many of them grieving parents, but if this Junk Science was discarded, then the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome could be found. I know of people in the USA who have pleaded guilty because the prosecutors let them off with short sentences just to get a conviction, in one case 3 months rather than Life in prison if they maintained their innocence. This baby had Brittle Bone Disease. It is impossible to shake a baby to death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xxR0MtCZj8&list=FLducIWe3-aQRx4vrmEJs-Xw

What a pleasure to see the astute comments already posted here. Difficult as it is to believe if you haven't seen it first hand, doctors trained with a well accepted but flawed model of infant head injury have been over-diagnosing abuse for decades, and sometimes pointing to the wrong caretaker. The classic theory suffers from two flaws: A belief that a distinctive pattern of bleeding and swelling inside the infant brain can be caused only by abuse, and a belief that the effects of the abuse will be immediately obvious in all cAWA. Accumulated experience is disproving both tenets, but the word is painfully slow getting out. For the story of a family torn apart when their son's genetic disorder was misdiagnosed as shaking, please see http://onsbs.com/prologue/

I have a strong feeling that this nanny is being wrongly accused. I have met too many parents from the Boston area whose children have suffered from metabollic disorders whose conditions were misidentified as child abuse. It is sad that the boston hospitals aren't owning up to huge error and that the Boston media love to glorify the idea that young children are violently beaten by people who love children. Retinal hemmorhages are a by-product of an increase in intracranial pressure and is a natural occurence in head injury. Multiple fractures in dfferent stages of healing is classic of metabolic bone disease.

Numerous fractions? where was the mother when the baby got these fractures,not taking any sides here but things aren't adding up,malnutrition?,that certainly isn't the baby sitters fault,parents very negligent seems to me if this is true .

The truth will set her free or convict her.

What a rediculus report. Who is the mother and father of the baby? Why did the baby have wounds "that were healing"? Who called the police? and why?