Nanny to the stars faces prison after shaken baby suffers brain damage

Jasmin Schmidt, 32, lost her temper with the infant during a 'restless night' and shook him violently, the Old Bailey heard. 

His parents rushed the infant to hospital after finding him 'limp and lifeless'.

The force of the shaking had torn veins between his skull and brain, causing bleeding. His right elbow had also been broken. 

Jasmin Schmidt arrives at the Old Bailey, today as a judge warned she faces jail after shaking a baby so violently that he suffered brain damage

He is now a healthy six-year-old, having recovered from his injuries. 

Schmidt who once worked for an A-list pop star who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to two counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm.

But yesterday a jury convicted her on both charges. 

The judge, Mr Recorder Jeremy Gold QC, remanded her on bail until September 8. 

He told her: 'All options will be open, including the strong possibility of imprisonment.'

Schmidt, of South Hampstead, North-West London, worked for a number of wealthy families after arriving in the UK in 1998 from her home in Bonn, Germany.

In September 2002 the paediatric nurse was hired as a night nanny for the victim in London where his was staying with his parents  -  who also cannot be named  -  while they attended Fashion Week from their home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

On September 14 Schmidt took care of the child for the third night while his parents went out for the evening. The following morning the boy's mother, who owns a designer clothes shop with her husband, found him 'whimpering' in his cot.

Schmidt had already left hurriedly after telling the mother the boy had been 'angry' during the night and had needed several 'quite hard' taps on his back to settle down.

When he woke soon after, his skin was blue and his head felt cold to the touch.

The mother told the court: 'He was very poorly. He was becoming more lifeless, continuing to close his eyes. I just kept shouting to keep him awake.'

When she called Schmidt, she said the nanny seemed dismissive and told her the boy was probably just coming down with a bug.

In an earlier trial this year, Schmidt was cleared of causing actual bodily harm to a two-month- old girl in 2006 and a three-month-old boy in 2003.