Former Cains childcare director jailed for six years over child's death on minibus

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Former Cairns childcare director Michael Glenn Lewis is sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter after the death of a toddler left behind on a minibus in Far North Queensland last year.

A former Cairns childcare centre director has been sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter after a three-year-old boy was left on a minibus and died last year.

Justice Henry said while he accepted Lewis was genuinely remorseful, he said his lack of care was criminally negligent. He said the degree of criminal negligence performed by Lewis would concern any member of society, but the failings were also a result of understaffing at the centre. Yesterday the court heard Lewis failed to take Meeky off the bus or sign him in after arriving at the centre."I'm so sorry, poor family, I'm so sorry," Lewis said.

 

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Too much.

Two employees got off that bus yet only one is liable?

The guy was negligent, a very serious breach of the trust of parents put in a childcare provider.

Is that all? 😢

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