Sandra Higgins went on trial charged with harming baby

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Sandra Higgins went on trial charged with harming a baby, reported on 12 June 2018.

The prosecution said the ten-month-old suffered seizures, bruising, brain bleeding and detached retinas after being taken to hospital on 28 March 2012.

No one saw Ms Higgins cause the injuries. She denied wrongdoing, while her lawyers accepted that the baby had suffered serious harm.