Another worker at the nursery where Genevieve Meehan died after being strapped to a beanbag has been charged with neglect. Rebecca Gregory, 25, who also worked at the Tiny Toes Nursery in Stockport , is accused of child neglect offences from the month before the death of nine-month-old Genevieve in May 2022. The alleged offences are not related to the death of Genevieve.
Greater Manchester Police confirmed Gregory has been charged with four counts of child neglect occurring in April 2022. It came after nine-month-old Genevieve was tightly swaddled and covered with a blanket by nurse Kate Roughley, who put her to sleep when the baby 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.
The nursery nurse from Heaton Norris was found guilty of manslaughter following a four-week trial at Manchester Crown Square Crown Court. Paying tribute to baby Genevieve, her family said: “It has been just over two years since our beautiful and wonderful daughter’s life was taken from her. Genevieve’s loss has destroyed our family.
We grieve for her every day. We long desperately to see her smile, hear her laugh and feel her warm embrace. Her absence is a physical and emotional wound that will never heal.
“Genevieve wasn’t just a baby, she was a person. She loved to lau.
