Two brothers accused of sexual abuse against a small girl were acquitted at Wolverhampton Crown Court after not-guilty verdicts were entered this afternoon.
One count of sexual abuse was scrubbed on the orders of the judge, and the jury delivered not guilty verdicts on a further seven. Three others were withdrawn by the prosecution.
The acquittals mark over a year of anguish for the family. The girl, now eight, had been staying with them while her father, estranged from her mother, was working night-shifts.
She made her accusations in June 2015 after her father found an obscene video she made of herself.
The court heard she had been watching pornography next door with a twelve-year-old girl, who had touched her sexually. But it was the boys she was staying with she accused.
The family’s younger children were taken into care as a result of the accusations, so the action now shifts back to the family court.
Next month the local authority will continue its quest to have the younger children adopted. It is true their case has been damaged by the acquittal of the older brothers.
But the family court operates to lower standards of evidence than the crown court. Instead of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, itself a long way short of justice as God demands it, the civil court standard of ‘balance of probabilities’ applies, despite the fact that the sanctions available to the family court – stripping parents of their children, depriving children of a family – are draconian.
Previous reports of the trial (contains challenging material):
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