A Taiwanese babysitter accused of severely injuring a four-month-old baby has been found not guilty, a setback for the family who fought for a conviction.

• A babysitter in Yilan was charged last year with shaking a baby hard enough to cause serious brain damage.
• Doctors found the baby suffered brain bleeding, eye bleeding, and lasting harm to speech, thinking, and movement.
• Medical reports placed the bleeding within three days before the emergency — a window when the baby was mostly with its own parents, not the babysitter.
• The babysitter only had the child for about six hours that day, and the court said prosecutors could not prove she caused the injury.

Outlook: The verdict can still be appealed, so the case may return to a higher court.