Decision to grant abusive partner access to daughter ‘alarming’, UK court hears

The child’s mother is appealing decision, accusing father of manipulating daughterA decision to allow a father contact with his daughter despite him having sexually abused, domestically abused and coercively controlled the mother is “alarming”, a court has heard.The allegations against the father, who is a member of the armed services, were found to have been proven on the balance of probabilities (the civil standard of proof) in a 2021 fact-finding judgment by the family court