Parents file wrongful death lawsuit against nanny
The parents of Rehma Sabir, the 1-year-old girl who died after suffering a brain bleed in 2013, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the child’s former nanny, The Boston Globe reports.
Sameer Sabir and Nada Siddiqui told the Globe they filed the lawsuit to make sure the nanny, Aisling Brady McCarthy, does not make money off their daughter’s death, through movie or book deals. McCarthy returned to her home in Ireland after prosecutors dropped murder charges against her in connection to the child’s death.
“Sameer and I want to emphasize that our purpose in filing this suit is to prevent Aisling McCarthy from profiting from our daughter’s death,’’ Siddiqui, the girl’s mother, told the Globe. “We lost our beautiful little girl in very difficult circumstances, and feel compelled to bring this suit to protect her memory.’’
Charges against McCarthy were dropped in August after the medical examiner changed the cause of the child’s death from homicide to “undetermined.’’ McCarthy had maintained through the two-and-a-half years she was in prison awaiting trial that she was wrongly accused.
Melinda Thompson, one of McCarthy’s attorneys in the criminal case, told the Globe that by filing the lawsuit, the parents are “compounding the tragedy’’ of their child’s death, calling the suit “shocking and disturbing.’’
The couple’s attorney, Jonathan Friedmann, told the Globe his clients would drop the suit if McCarthy agreed not to profit from their daughter’s death.
Read the full Globe report here.
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