A nursery worker who strapped a nine-month-old baby to a beanbag and left her for 90 minutes has been found guilty of manslaughter.
Kate Roughley, 37, put nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan in “mortal danger” as a “punishment”, the trial heard.
The child died from asphyxiation at Tiny Toes nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, on 9 May 2022.
A pathologist told the jury “a very unsafe sleeping environment” led to her death.
During the trial, Dr Philip Lumb said it would have been a “struggle” for Genevieve to breathe in the position she was placed in.
In his closing speech to the jury before they were sent out to deliberate last week, Peter Wright KC said Ms Roughley had “brought about” the child’s death with her “deliberate conduct”.
He said: “Genevieve was being punished for her earlier perceived misdemeanours, for not sleeping long enough for her liking.
“She was being banished to the beanbag and restrained.
“It was a recipe for disaster, and disaster there followed.”
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