Couple who said medics broke 60 of their dead baby’s bones jailed
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A couple who attempted to blame paramedics for the death of their daughter who was found with sixty broken bones have been sentenced jailed at the Inner London Crown Court today.
Benjamin O'Shea, 26, and Naomi Johnson, 23, were each found guilty of physically abusing eight-week-old girl Amina and also of cruelty to another child.
O'Shea was sentenced to eight years and eight months and Johnson to seven years and two months.
Paramedics had been called to the couple's home in Southwark, London, on April 26, 2019, after the pair said Amina stopped breathing.
Despite the paramedics' best efforts little Amina tragically died at the scene.
Police initially found no observable injuries on Amina's body and attributed her death to Sudden Unexplained Death in Infants.
However, a post mortem examination later confirmed Amina had suffered a catalogue of injuries with over 60 fractured bones.
Shockingly, 41 of these were to her ribs with 24 other limb bone fractures.
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Disgustingly, the couple initially claimed that Amina's fractures had come about due to the work of the paramedics.
O'Shea had claimed that he had taken Amina to the GP the day before her death where she was declared fine.
The next morning he says she woke up irritated so he administered paracetamol and put her to bed.
He would later find her unresponsive and call 999.
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