WOBURN, Mass. (AP) – A judge has agreed to let an Irish nanny accused of killing a 1-year-old Massachusetts girl free on bail while authorities review medical evidence ahead of her trial.
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Maureen Hogan ruled Tuesday that Aisling Brady McCarthy can be provisionally released on $15,000 bail. McCarthy will be confined to home and have to wear a GPS monitor and surrender her passport.
McCarthy’s lawyers said it’s unclear exactly when she would walk free.
McCarthy’s trial has been postponed indefinitely as the state Medical Examiner’s Office reviews a finding that Rehma Sabir died of traumatic head injuries and that her January 2013 death was a homicide.
McCarthy was living illegally in the U.S. and taking care of the baby in the family’s Cambridge home. She has pleaded not guilty.