Jonny Carlos, 45, and Michelle Ingham, 32, were found not guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and cruelty to a person aged under 16 at Bournemouth Crown Court yesterday.
The trial collapsed when the complainant, who is eight years old, admitted she had made up the allegations against the two.
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