Second worker at nursery where baby died jailed

A nursery idiosyncratic has been jailed for 3 years for "deplorable" ill-treatment of babies successful her care.

Rebecca Gregory was caught verbally abusing and threatening to footwear the infants of little than a twelvemonth aged astatine Tiny Toes successful Cheadle Hulme, Stockport.

The 25-year-old, of Pearl Street successful Stockport, who pleaded blameworthy astatine Manchester Crown Court to 4 counts of wilfully ill-treating children, is the 2nd idiosyncratic from the nursery to beryllium jailed.

In May, 37-year-old Kate Roughley was jailed for the manslaughter of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan astatine the nursery.

Evidence of Gregory's crimes came to airy during different investigation.

CCTV footage recorded connected 26 April 2022 contained grounds of Gregory being heavy-handed with a babe that was crying and struggling successful a broad successful which the kid had been swaddled excessively tightly.

She was heard to accidental to the child: "You privation maine to sound you out?"

Later that greeting she swaddled a 2nd crying kid and pushed them implicit aft saying: "I’m really going to footwear him successful a minute."

She besides placed the aforesaid kid successful a cot excessively heavy connected the aforesaid day, the CPS said.

The footage showed Gregory placing a 3rd swaddled babe successful a cot astir and told them to "shut up", the CPS said.

The CPS said she past pushed that kid over.

The 4th kid was forcefully enactment into a highchair earlier she enactment a dummy into their rima saying: "Put that successful your gob and unopen up."

The CPS said nary of the children suffered immoderate disposable injuries arsenic a effect of Gregory’s actions.

Karen Tongue, of the CPS, said: "Rebecca Gregory was entrusted with the attraction of the youngest children successful the nursery.

"The CCTV footage from the nursery’s babe country showed respective instances of Gregory ill-treating 4 young children successful her care.

"The mode she spoke to them was genuinely appalling."

Det Con Natalie Pettit said: "Anyone who hears the details of this probe cannot neglect to beryllium sickened by the careless actions of Rebecca Gregory.

"This was a harrowing probe which uncovered respective unacceptable behaviours and practices astatine Tiny Toes Nursery.

"It was wide to spot determination was a civilization of not challenging inappropriate behaviour which yet placed respective children who were nether their attraction astatine hazard of superior harm."

Tiny Toes was closed down successful 2022 soon aft the probe into the decease of Genevieve Meehan was launched.

Her killer, Kate Roughley, was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter pursuing a trial, successful which a assemblage heard that she had swaddled the kid tightly and strapped her look down to a beanbag.

Genevieve mislaid consciousness and suffocated.

The gathering inactive houses a nursery, but it is owned and managed by a antithetic company.