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Former Cains childcare director jailed for six years over child’s death on minibus
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.
WARNING: This story contains images of Indigenous people who have died.
Key points:
- Three-year-old ‘Meeky’ was left alone on the minibus where temperatures soared to 56C
- Michael Glenn Lewis failed to take Meeky off the bus or sign him in after arriving at the centre
- Justice Henry said if Lewis had complied with the centre’s sign-in and out methods, Meeky would not have died
Michael Glenn Lewis will be eligible for parole in 18 months.
The then childcare centre director, collected the boy with the Goodstart Early Learning Centre minibus in February last year but failed to take…
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