Nursery Nurse Jailed for Killing ‘Nuisance’ Baby Who Was Tied to a Beanbag

A nursery worker has been jailed for 14 years for manslaughter after she killed a baby girl who the judge said she considered a “nuisance.” On May 9, 2022, Kate Roughley, 37, strapped 9-month-old Genevieve Meehan face down on a beanbag, restrained her with a harness, and then covered her with a blanket. The baby was discovered unresponsive and blue 90 minutes later. Sentencing Roughley at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday, Mrs. Justice Ellenbogen said, “It is apparent that, at best, you considered Genevieve to have been a nuisance and at times displayed considerable exasperation and antipathy towards her.” “On the morning of May 9, in obvious exasperation, you berated her for having slept for only 20 minutes, having called her ‘vile.’ I am quite satisfied that you used that word to describe Genevieve herself and not, as you claimed in evidence, her cough,” she added....