A COUPLE who had their child taken from them and then adopted after being wrongly accused of abuse was told yesterday they are “likely never to see their baby again.”

Despite being found not guilty of child cruelty and neglect on Wednesday, Karissa Cox and Richard Carter were told by their lawyer Michael Turner that the chances of regaining custody of their child were slim.

Over three years ago, the first-time parents from Guildford, Surrey took their six-weeks-old to The Royal Surrey County Hospital as the child was bleeding from the mouth.