Babysitter jailed after battering 2-year-old
A BABYSITTER who left a two-year-old girl with injuries like those suffered ‘in a 70mph car crash or falling from a twostorey building’ has been jailed for 14 years.
Nisar Ali, 34, launched a terrible attack on the youngster in a fit of ‘inhumane’ rage after he was asked to look after her for ten minutes at the request of her mother.
He then returned her home in his VW Passat car without saying a word about what he had done.
The child collapsed at her home 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 was left with brain damage and 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 also compared her injuries to those caused by a fall from a two-storey building. Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard in the run up to the attack on January 11 this year, Ali had collected the child from her mother’s house but it is thought he lost his temper with her at a nearby park and then attacked her at his parents’ home. The father-of-two, from Cheetham Hill, later denied wrongdoing but was convicted of intent to cause grievous bodily harm following a trial. Passing sentence, Judge Tina Landale told him when he is released he will be on licence until 2036. She said: “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-storey building. She was also shaken so badly her injuries were equivalent to a car accident at 70mph.” Earlier the girl’s father revealed the family’s suffering. In a statement, he said: “My daughter will never be the same, the actions of this one inhumane person has cost my daughter her future.” The girl’s mother, 35, was acquitted of causing or allowing serious harm to a child at an earlier hearing. Judge Tina Landale