Mrs Ruth Sheppard Speaking to the BBC

A childminder has been jailed for shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Keran Henderson had been trusted to look after little Maeve Sheppard but killed her instead, Reading Crown Court heard. Maeve Sheppard was initially looked after by her mother. Like many new mothers Ruth Sheppard was torn between her desire to look after her baby girl and the financial pressure to return to work. Mrs Sheppard told the court how she spent every waking moment with her daughter while on maternity leave. She wiped away tears as she remembered a happy, trouble-free baby. She and her husband Mark, who were childhood sweethearts before being reunited in adulthood, had struggled to make ends meet with the wages from Mr Sheppard's job as a toolmaker. Continued here