Nursery worker pleads guilty to child neglect

A WOMAN who worked at nursery where a baby girl died is facing a possible jail term after she admitted neglecting four children.

- CHRIS SLATER

Rebecca Gregory, 25, 'slammed' one down onto the floor causing him to cry out in distress, a court heard.

Another's head 'slammed' against a high-chair as he was placed into it.

She also told that little boy to 'go home, as well as saying to another victim 'put that in your gob and shut up' after giving him a dummy.

She worked at Tiny Toes in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, where nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan died in May 2022.

Kate Roughley was jailed for 14 years in May this year after being convicted of her manslaughter by ill-treatment.

Following her conviction, police announced Gregory had been charged with the four offences, which are not linked to Genevieve's death.

Yesterday, she appeared before Stockport magistrates court where she pleaded guilty to four counts of wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing a child in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health, relating to four separate children. Their identities cannot be disclosed for legal reasons.