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Father banned from contact with daughters after making false abuse claims

A father who repeatedly made unfounded allegations of sexual abuse has been ordered to have no contact with his two young daughters.

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A father has been banned from seeing his two young daughters after a court found he held an entrenched and unjustifiable belief that the children were being sexually abused in their mother's home. His relentless false claims have resulted in a no-contact order being imposed.

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Dad banned from seeing daughters after relentless false abuse claims

A father who held an “entrenched and unjustifiable belief” that his two young daughters were being sexually abused in their mother’s home has been ordered to have no contact with the children.

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