Nursery worker accused of killing nine-month-old girl did not 'persecute' baby, court hears

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Nursery worker accused of killing nine-month-old girl did not 'persecute' baby, court hears
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Kate Roughley, 37, found nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan unresponsive and blue while she was in her care at Tiny Toes Nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport.

A nursery worker accused of killing a nine-month-old girl has denied she 'persecuted' the baby who suffocated after 'being left face down on a bean bag'

Deputy manager Kate Roughley is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of causing baby Genevieve's death through her ill-treatmentRoughley, of Heaton Norris, Stockport, denies manslaughter by ill-treatment and an alternative count of child cruelty. Peter Wright KC, cross-examining, said to the defendant: 'I am going to suggest that the contents of that CCTV demonstrated that you persecuted that child, Genevieve?' Roughley replied: 'That's not true.'

The defendant said: 'This was not distress. This is how Genevieve went to sleep in previous times at the nursery.'

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