Couple Cleared of Abuse Likely Won’t Get Child Back

Karrissa Cox and Richard Carter, both aged 25, were found not guilty at Guildford Crown Court of child cruelty and neglect more than three years after they took the child to hospital. They were concerned after noticing blood in the baby’s mouth after a feed.

Doctors also found bruising on the baby’s body and “healing fractures” on an X-ray and feared that it had been abused.

In England, the parents of a baby who was wrongly taken away from them by social services say they have been “destroyed” by the decision.

Ms Cox said she and her partner had been let down by the system, and they regretted taking their child to hospital in the first place.

Despite the case against them having collapsed, Karrissa and Richard face the very real prospect of never seeing their child again after the Family Court approved its adoption past year.

Cox, a former soldier and Afghan war veteran, vowed to fight the courts despite the low chance of success. “I am more than determined”.

They have been in that case found innocent of child abuse immediately after defending authorities said the child had Von Willebrands Discover, a carnage dysfunction that causes a given person to contusion easily.

That led prosecutors to offer no evidence and not guilty verdicts to be entered, according to Garden Court Chambers.

The couple, of Guildford, Surrey, had been allowed supervised contact with the child when in care until the youngster was adopted previous year. “I was destroyed”, Carter tells the Daily Mirror.

She added: “It’s a weight lifted that the criminal proceedings are not going any further, but now it’s a fight to try to win our child back”.

“[The child] said mummy and daddy quite a lot and used to get upset when it was time for contact to finish”, Cox told a local paper, “[The child] wouldn’t want to be put back in the auto and would cling on, hold on to me. The pain has never got any less.

She said it is highly unusual in cases of alleged abuse for an adoption to go through before the criminal case has been resolved.

“It also shows the perils of the continued inaction relating to a nationwide epidemic of vitamin D deficiency and rickets and the grave injustice that can result when relying on the opinions of medical professionals alone to conclude child abuse”.