Nursery worker charged for killing 9-month-old baby
The Independent|May 21, 2024
A nursery nurse who strapped a baby girl face down onto a bean bag after considering her "too demanding" has been convicted of manslaughter.
ALEX ROSS
Nursery worker charged for killing 9-month-old baby

Nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan was also tightly swaddled and covered with a blanket by Kate Roughley, who put her to sleep when she was in her care at Tiny Toes nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport.

The 37-year-old deputy manager at the nursery had decided to punish the baby, known affectionately to her family as Gigi, for “not sleeping long enough” on the afternoon of 9 May 2022, the trial heard.

Genevieve’s lifeless body was discovered before colleagues and then paramedics attempted to revive the baby. But the girl’s condition was irreversible and she was pronounced dead later that day in hospital.

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