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Second member of staff from Tiny Toes Nursery in Stockport sentenced to prison for assaulting and neglecting children

A second nursery practitioner who worked at Tiny Toes Nursery in Stockport, the setting where Genevieve Meehan died, has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of ‘wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing a child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering’.
Tiny Toes Nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, PHOTO: Google Images

Rebecca Gregory admitted neglecting four children in her care at the nursery on 26 April 2022. Gregory was arrested last November after Police observed Gregory’s ‘abusive’ treatment of four children in the baby room when viewing CCTV footage within the nursery for their investigation into the death of Genevieve Meehan.

Gregory’s case is not related to the death of Genevieve Meehan for which another nursery worker, Kate Roughley, was found guilty of and sentenced to 14 years in prison in May.

Yesterday (Monday 2 September) 25-year-old Gregory appeared at Minshull Street Crown Court where a judge heard how the nursery practitioner had swaddled four children, placing one face down while he had a dummy in his mouth and ‘threatening to kick’ another.

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