A MAN and a woman have been bailed after being charged with child neglect.

The pair, who live in Accrington but cannot be named for legal reasons, are both accused of wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing the child to unnecessary suffering.

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They will appear at Burnley Crown Court on January 25.

The woman is also accused of carrying out three assaults on the child.