Cavan nanny case set for pre-trial hearing today

The Cavan nanny charged with the murder of a one-year baby girl who was in her care at the time is to return to court later today so that both her own legal team, and the prosecutors against her can brief the judge on their trial preparations.

Lavey-native Aisling Brady McCarthy (35) herself is to appear at the Middlesex Superior Court later today.

Her legal team have sought bail, but prosecutors argue that if it's granted, due to her illegal status in the US, she would be deported immediately.

Earlier this month, at a separate hearing prosecution medical experts were forced to admit that injuries suffered by the child, including fractures, occurred weeks before the child's death during a time when the Mrs McCarthy Brady was not in contact with her.

Mrs McCarthy Brady is due to stand trial this coming April on a charge first degree murder of baby Rehma Sabir on January 14 last year in an apartment in Cambridge, MA.

Doctors found Baby Sabir had suffered severe head trauma and died two days later in hospital in Boston. However, a charge that Mrs McCarthy Brady had assaulted the child causing death was dismissed at an earlier court heard due to “lack of evidence”.

Prosecutors however continue to claim DNA evidence ties McCarthy to the fatal injuries and cleanup at the scene.