"You silly girl": The nursery worker that parents will never be able to forgive once they saw through her lies

It happened in a place that should have been safe and secure.

Countless books were stacked around the numerous cots, bean bags, blankets and high chairs. Huge fluffy bears and bunnies were dotted about the spongy playmat and in amongst it all, very young babies babbled and squealed as they played together.

They relied solely on those around them to care for them, play with them and keep them safe.

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Little Genevieve Meehan was one of them. At just nine months and 21 days old, her life was cut short in the most horrific of circumstances by someone she should have been able to trust.

Now, following a month-long trial, nursery deputy manager Kate Roughley has been convicted of manslaughter, after swaddling little Genevieve and strapping her face down onto a bean bag.

Baby Genevieve, called Gigi by her family, was a blessing to her parents, John Meehan and Katie Wheeler, who first announced her presence to the family by way of a double celebration alongside her dad’s birthday party.

“We were so overjoyed - she was so very wanted,” mum, Ms Wheeler, said.

Coming into the world prematurely in July 2021, and weighing just three pounds and twelve ounces, she was every bit the missing piece to the close-knit family.

She was initially admitted onto the high dependency unit at St Mary’s hospital before being moved onto the nursery ward.

“She was small but perfectly formed,” her besotted mum said.

A growing Genevieve was then moved to Stepping Hill Hospital, no longer requiring specialist support. Before she was discharged and allowed to go home to meet her big sister.

“She thrived from the moment she came into the world, loved food and