Freed Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy, who spent more then two years in a US jail, is going home to start a new life, her family told Daily News.
The charge that she murdered one-year-old baby Rehma Sabir was suddenly dropped yesterday, after medical experts dramatically changed their evidence.
She had spent most of her prison time in Massachusetts’s notorious MCI Framingham with murderers, drug traffickers, armed robbers and child abusers.
After prosecutors in Boston declared that she had no case to answer, Aisling’s family are ‘over the moon’. ‘We always knew she was innocent.
Rehma Sabir seen here with her mother and father Nada Siddiqui and Sameer Sabir
And close a family friend, former NYPD detective Luke Waters, said the case against the 37-year-old should never have gone ahead.
‘I said it from the beginning,’ he said. ‘The DA should never have pursued this. There was never a case to answer from the start and it should never have got to this point.
‘She is completely innocent and she has been put through a two-year nightmare,’ he added.
The 37-year-old, originally from Lavey in Co. Cavan, was arrested in January 2013 and charged with the murder of Rehma, died in hospital two days after she was found unresponsive in the Sabir family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Aisling was indicted on the firstdegree murder charge by a grand jury in April 2013 before being arraigned at a hearing a week later where she tearfully pleaded not guilty to the charges in court.
The Co. Cavan woman had spenalmost two and a half years in jail before she was released on bail in May, but even then she was placed under house arrest as she had been living in the US illegally for a number of years previously.
But yesterday prosecutors entered a Nolle Prosequi – which translates as ‘do not prosecute’– after a review carried out by the Massachusetts Medical Examiner found the baby’s cause of death was not murder.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said that based on an assessment of the present state of evidence, including the amended ruling from the Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy, the ‘Commonwealth cannot meet its burden of proof’.
Ms Ryan said last night that the criminal case against Aisling is now ended.
Asked if other charges could be brought against her, she replied: ‘No, we don’t anticipate that.’
The charge that she murdered one-year-old baby Rehma Sabir was suddenly dropped yesterday, after medical experts dramatically changed their evidence.
She had spent most of her prison time in Massachusetts’s notorious MCI Framingham with murderers, drug traffickers, armed robbers and child abusers.
After prosecutors in Boston declared that she had no case to answer, Aisling’s family are ‘over the moon’. ‘We always knew she was innocent.
And close a family friend, former NYPD detective Luke Waters, said the case against the 37-year-old should never have gone ahead.
‘I said it from the beginning,’ he said. ‘The DA should never have pursued this. There was never a case to answer from the start and it should never have got to this point.
‘She is completely innocent and she has been put through a two-year nightmare,’ he added.
The 37-year-old, originally from Lavey in Co. Cavan, was arrested in January 2013 and charged with the murder of Rehma, died in hospital two days after she was found unresponsive in the Sabir family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Aisling was indicted on the firstdegree murder charge by a grand jury in April 2013 before being arraigned at a hearing a week later where she tearfully pleaded not guilty to the charges in court.
The Co. Cavan woman had spenalmost two and a half years in jail before she was released on bail in May, but even then she was placed under house arrest as she had been living in the US illegally for a number of years previously.
But yesterday prosecutors entered a Nolle Prosequi – which translates as ‘do not prosecute’– after a review carried out by the Massachusetts Medical Examiner found the baby’s cause of death was not murder.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said that based on an assessment of the present state of evidence, including the amended ruling from the Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy, the ‘Commonwealth cannot meet its burden of proof’.
Ms Ryan said last night that the criminal case against Aisling is now ended.
Asked if other charges could be brought against her, she replied: ‘No, we don’t anticipate that.’
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