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Nursery admits corporate manslaughter after toddler suffocated while being 'made' to sleep
Fairytales Day Nursery admitted corporate manslaughter after a 14-month-old was suffocated due to unsafe sleeping practices, with sentencing set for April 16.
- On Wednesday, Fairytales Day Nursery Limited pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter at Wolverhampton Crown Court over the death of 14-month-old Noah Sibanda.
- Noah Sibanda died on December 9, 2022, after staff at the Dudley facility restrained him face-down on a cushion with a blanket covering his head while attempting to make him sleep.
- CCTV footage captured nursery practitioner Kimberley Cookson restraining the child; Cookson admitted to gross negligence manslaughter, with prosecutors calling the practices "reckless and dangerous."
- Business owner Deborah Latewood admitted a Health and Safety at Work Act offence; all defendants face sentencing at Wolverhampton Crown Court on April 16.
- Ofsted permanently closed the facility in April 2023, as prosecutors emphasized nursery providers have a "fundamental duty to protect the children in their care.
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Toddler suffocated to death at Midlands nursery in 'parent's worst nightmare'
The 14-month-old died at Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley on December 9, 2022. Nursery worker Kimberley Cookson admitted gross negligence manslaughter and the nursery has pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter
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