Kate Roughley, who denies manslaughter and a count of child cruelty over the death of the nine-month-old, is currently standing trial at Manchester Crown Court.
The jury was shown CCTV footage from the room where Genevieve was being cared for on 9 May 2022, the day of her death, according to reports.
It showed Ms Roughley crouch down and flip the child over before jumping and shouting ‘she’s not breathing’.
A colleague could be seen unfastening the strap on the beanbag on which she was placed to sleep on her front, and lifting Genevieve who was floppy and unresponsive, to a play may.
Four staff members gathered around Genevieve at one point as they called her name and attempted to arouse her without success before chest compressions were given ahead of the arrival of paramedics.
Geneveive was then rushed to hospital, but pronounced dead later that afternoon.
CCTV from earlier in the day recorded Roughley saying to colleagues that ‘Genevive was screaming but if you keep yourself busy you can’t hear her crying’.
She was also seen clapping and singing, ‘Genevieve go home’ repeatedly as the cried while on a play mat.
Shortly before 13:30pm, Roughley told a colleague, ‘She has been awake since half 10.’
The colleague responds, ‘She must be tired though, surely.’
Roughley went on to administer an inhaler to Genevieve who weeks earlier was treated in hospital for a chest infection.
She went on to say, ‘Just put her on the beanbag. I’m not wasting a cot.
‘Cos if I put her in there she’s going to scream and wake (unnamed child|) up.’
CCTV captured Genevieve raising her head and legs as well as wriggling on the beanbag as crying can be heard. The tone of the crying further intensifies to a deeper grunting sound at 2.14pm as movement on the bean bag continues, according to reports.
At 2.23pm, the crying stops and a minute later the final leg movements from Genevieve are seen.
At 2.46pm, Roughley bends over Genevieve without touching her before she tells a colleague, ‘I couldn't see her chest going up and down.’
She walks over to Genevieve seven minutes later and says to her colleague, ‘I don't want to move her cos that's why she woke up last time ...it's a holey blanket so she should be alright.’
Opening the case, Mr Wright said strapping a child down in such a way was an ‘obvious recipe for disaster’.
Mr Wright said Genevieve was ‘left virtually immobilised and face down from 1.35pm to 3.12pm, and that her cries, distress and efforts to move or reposition herself were ignored’.
Sarah Elliott KC, defending Ms Roughely, summarized the defence case by telling jurors, ‘Genevieve’s death was a terrible and unavoidable accident and not caused by any acts of Kate Roughley that were unlawful.’
The trial continues.