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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Al-Othman

Stockport nursery worker who mishandled and verbally abused children is jailed

Rebecca Gregory
Police said Rebecca Gregory’s ‘interactions with the children were callous and lacked proper care and compassion’. Photograph: GMP/PA

A nursery worker has been jailed for three years after she verbally abused four children in her care and threatened to kick one in the head.

Rebecca Gregory, 25, had pleaded guilty to four counts of wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing a child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering, Greater Manchester police (GMP) said.

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