Sandra Higgins denies causing serious harm to baby

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Sandra Higgins has pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 17 June 2015.

The charge concerns an alleged assault on a 10-month-old baby at Higgins’s home in Cavan on 28 March 2012.

The trial heard evidence from a detective garda, the child’s uncle, childcare workers and a social worker.

Higgins told gardaí the baby was not shaken in her care and denied assaulting her.

The trial was scheduled to continue for six days before Judge Patricia Ryan and a jury.