14 years jail for babysitter who left girl, 2, like ‘a 70mph car smash victim’
A BABYSITTING man who left a two-year-old girl with brain damage after battering her with “inhumane” force has been jailed for 14 years.
Nisar Ali, 34, caused injuries to the girl that were similar to being severely hurt in a 70mph car crash.
He had been asked to look after the girl for 10 minutes at the request of her mother and returned her home without saying anything was wrong.
But she collapsed in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, and was found to have suffered 30 injuries including a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain. She underwent emergency surgery at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital where she had to have part of her skull removed to relieve pressure from her brain.
She will be disabled for the rest of her life – with doctors saying she will have the appearance of a person who has suffered a severe stroke.
One expert said her injuries were similar to having fallen from the top of a two-story building. Ali is thought to have lost his temper with her at a park after collecting her on January 11 this year and then attacked her at his parents’ home.
The father-of-two, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, later denied wrongdoing but was convicted of intent to cause grievous bodily harm following a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.
Sentencing, Judge Tina Landale said Ali “displayed no concern for the child”. She told him: “Before this incident the child you injured was a very bright, delightful, happy child with all of her future ahead of her. She had a loving family, a devoted father, a loving sister, a wider extended family. Your defence was that you had not caused any injury and had no knowledge how she came to be so gravely ill – but the evidence in the trial showed you to be a manipulative man.
“It may never be known what you did to her but something happened at the park when you took her there.
“You were away from the mother for a period of 10 minutes. It’s most likely you took the child into your parents’ house where you attacked her.
“It must have been a ferocious assault on a defenceless two-year-old child. You have a short temper, you don’t tolerate independence of mind, you have strict ideas about how children should be brought up.
“The child suffered 30 deliberate injuries, three were life threatening head injuries, a fractured skull, the force required would be consistent with a fall from a second story building. She was also shaken so badly her injuries were equivalent to a car accident at 70mph. She became immediately unwell, in an act of cold calculation and self preservation you chose not to tell her mother, you drove her back and left her there.”
Earlier the girl’s father, a businessman, said in a statement: “My daughter will never be the same. The actions of this one inhumane person have caused my daughter her future. I will do my best to give to her what’s been selfishly taken from her.”
The girl’s mother, 35, was acquitted of causing or allowing serious harm to a child at an earlier hearing.