Father, 31, who took his one-year-old daughter to hospital with a leg rash was falsely accused of child abuse

‘A father was wrongly accused of abusing his baby daughter when he took her to hospital with a rash on her leg which doctors suspected was a burn.
Worried Kevin Gardiner, 31, of Ridgewell, Suffolk, sought medical attention for one-year-old Amara when he spotted the bright red mark on her left thigh.
But doctors immediately called in social services and police, who quizzed him on suspicion of hurting the tot.
Due to the accusations, Mr Gardiner was separated from Amara, his newborn baby daughter Genevieve and his partner Jasmine Yates for over a week.
He said: ‘It was heartbreaking. I obviously felt like my life had been taken away from me when I hadn’t done anything and I was being punished.
‘All we were trying to do was the right thing and then I ended up being accused of hurting.”
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