Baby died after being strapped to bean bag by deputy nursery manager and ignored, court hears

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1. “Roughley denies manslaughter and an alternative count of child cruelty.”
   ok but your child cruelty became manslaughter, that’s the whole point.

2. So, you swaddle a baby, place them face down on a bean-bag in a harness, then cover them head-to-toe with a blanket, ignore the cries before finally checking in over an hour and a half later….

   …and you work in a childrens’ day care centre.

   Can someone double check the number of WTFs in there because I’ve lost count.

3. Swaddling a nine month old? There’s red flags already there.

4. What the fuck, the baby was 9 months, an age where babies are less likely to succumb to cot death due to their ability to move themselves – but this woman purposely took that ability away?

   Okay, a 9 month old is sleepy and whingy but not wet/hungry/sick etc and you have other children you need to attend to more urgently…surely you put her in a cot or soft bottomed playpen and attend to the other children, before popping back to check on her, hoping that she’s dozed off or calmed down in the meantime?

   This has to be deliberate cruelty (that led to manslaughter) because it defies all common sense and empathy!

5. from another version of the article

   “Qualified nursery nurse Kate Roughley, 37, is accused of [manslaughter](https://www.thesun.co.uk/topic/crime/) and an alternative count of child cruelty.

   Jurors were told Roughley “for some inexplicable reason appeared to have taken against Genevieve” in the days before the baby’s death.

   She was heard telling the tot to “stop your whinging” and told her repeatedly to “go home” when she cried.”

   So it makes it sound less like manslaughter and more intentional?

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7. As the people quoted in the article mention, yes, it is very obvious, especially to a qualified person in childcare, that you shouldn’t suffocate a baby.

   Shouldn’t this be treated as murder instead of manslaughter?

8. Absolutely disgusting, that poor sweet baby, left helpless. Too many people who work with children when they shouldn’t. My heart breaks for the poor mother and father 💔

9. You wonder how many other babies were subjected to this sort of abuse and survived, meaning their parents never found out

   Concerning that other staff did not intervene

10. What a horrible read. How could that not have been intentional?

11. Presumably the actual manager, whoever trained this woman and gave her a job, and anyone else that was working that day are also in the shit? 

12. I feel guilty for days when I accidentally step on my cats tail, I couldn’t imagine doing that to a baby .. then covering them up so others can’t see her. I feel nauseous after reading that.

    I’m no legal expert but intentionally restricting a baby’s movement, placing them face down onto a surface and then covering them up and leaving them to suffocate surely proves malicious intent ergo, this is murder?? Right??

    As if she hadn’t done enough, but to then deny the charges is further insult to Genevieve’s memory and her family.

13. I don’t think I’ve ever said what the fuck so many times reading anything. She knew what she was doing, she probably wasn’t expecting her to actually die. How many times has she done this before and the baby was lucky enough to survive? Crazy that this is only manslaughter.

14. I hope this horrible cunt has a lovely time in prison. This is horrific. The poor family.

15. I’m sorry, but there’s no way this wasn’t intentional

16. God I feel like such a boomer but we need to have the death penalty as an option. There’s no amount of time or rehabilitation that could make this creature a useful member of human society ever again.

17. Absolutely horrific negligence and cruelty towards a little baby. I hope her family find some peace.

    Cases like this is why I don’t really want my children in a nursery. Even if it usually isn’t as bad as this, the care often just isn’t good enough.

18. I just read that she’d been fussing at GiGi in the days prior, mocking her for crying and telling her to go home. Then she told a coworker to ignore her. This should at least be manslaughter

    ETA: I’m American and just heard about this case. I had to find a place to express my anger at this woman and heartbreak for GiGi and her family.

19. Disgusting human being hope she gets a really long time in prison to reflect the nightmare that baby went through. Heck give her life in prison this is straight up murder.

    Where the heck was the other staff? Where is the manager? Whole place needs to be shut down.

20. Good god, I read another article where it documents the time her leg movements were last recorded, and ‘her movements were entirely consistent with an exhausted infant desperately thrashing in order to survive’. Now I can normally turn emotion off, even when reading something like this.
    But for some reason this has got me. That poor poor baby.