Kate Roughley arrives at Manchester Crown Court before being found guilty of the manslaughter of baby Genevieve Meehan, who died in hospital after being strapped face down to a bean bag at Tiny Toes nursery in Stockport in May 2022.
Kate Roughley has been found guilty of manslaughter A nursery worker who strapped a baby girl face down on to a bean bag for more than a hour and a half has been convicted of manslaughter. Nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan was also tightly swaddled and covered with a blanket by Kate Roughley, 37, at Tiny Toes nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. Roughley had put her to sleep and then later discovered Genevieve’s lifeless body on the afternoon of May 9, 2022.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Within five minutes Genevieve can be seen moving her head side-to-side and raising her legs, jurors were told, with prosecutor Peter Wright KC adding: ‘What you will see, we say, is entirely consistent with an increasingly exhausted child desperately thrashing in order to survive.
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