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By Mark Naylor & Steven White A heartless mum and dad forced their young daughter to unnecessarily use a wheelchair for four years just so they could claim mobility car and disability allowance payments. Throughout the financially-motivated scam, the girl suffered bullying at school and serious psychological harm over the “gratuitous degradation” of having to use a wheelchair. She was even subjected to multiple doctor and hospital appointments as well as in-patient hospital stays that were not even needed. The youngster, who was seven when the abuse started, missed out on “normal childhood exp…

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