Nanny jailed over child abuse traumatised in prison – lawyer

Sase Gunraj, the lawyer defending Fatima Martin who was sentenced to 60 months in prison for assaulting a one-year-old baby, says that his client suffered a lot of trauma while in prison and was taken to a safe place upon her release.

The 19-year-old nanny was released on Thursday and carried away by her family, pending an appeal of her sentence which was handed down last Friday in a Magistrate’s Court.

She was given the maximum sentence for inflicting grievous bodily harm on the baby, who is the