Sentencing Roughley, 37, to 14 years in prison, judge, Mrs Justice Ellenbogen KC, said the former deputy manager had considered Genevieve Meehan ‘at best a nuisance’ and at times with ‘antipathy’.
The trial at Manchester Crown Court, which lasted four weeks, heard how Genevieve was left for one hour and 37 minutes swaddled in a blanket and strapped face down to a beanbag at Tiny Toes Nursery on 9 May 2022.
The prosecutor suggested Roughley had appeared to ‘take against’ the child in the days prior when she had strapped her in a similar position, and treated her without ‘any degree of tenderness or affection’.
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