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[2024] WLR(D) 73

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In re O (Description of Sexual Abuse)

[2024] EWCA Civ 126

2024 Feb 1; 15

Peter Jackson, WhippleLJJ, Cobb J

Children— Care proceedings— Threshold criteria— Fact-finding hearing ascertaining whether threshold criteria met for care and supervision order— Court finding unintentional and negligent exposure of child to sexual material— Court classifying unintentional exposure of child to sexual material as “sexual abuse”— Whether sexual abuse— Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 31

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