Worthing Baby's Mother
Reference: 7FAC-3NPY-6Y2M-PB78
- Outcome
- Returned After Court Action
- Outcome detail
- Returned to mother after almost a year
- Jurisdiction
- Worthing, ENG, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2015
- Account type
- Court Or Official Findings
Quick summary
- Quick summary
- A baby was separated from his parents for almost a year after Worthing Hospital staff wrongly concluded he had been shaken; a judge found no-one had harmed him.
Full story
- Full story
- The parents called an ambulance when their baby was 'limp and floppy'. At Worthing Hospital staff concluded he had a non-accidental head injury; the parents were arrested and he went into care. Judge Jakens at Brighton family court found the evidence 'incomplete', that no-one had harmed him, and put the hospital leadership 'on notice'. He was returned to his mother; the parents separated under the strain.
Where
- Hospital
- Worthing Hospital
- Agency
- Local authority children's services (not named)
- City
- Worthing
- State
- ENG
- Country
- United Kingdom
- First Nations
- Not Stated
The removal
- When the baby was taken
- First Year
- Where the baby was taken from
- Not Stated
- Stated reasons
- Unexplained Injury Alleged
- How it was done
- Police Involved
Support after
- Grief counselling offered
- Not Stated
Getting baby back
- Did she get her baby back
- Yes
- Time apart
- Almost a year
- Where the baby is now
- Returned To Mother
People, hospitals and agencies
Brighton Family CourtOfficial response
- Official response
- Judge said an inquiry into the hospital care was under way.
- Legal action
- Court Ruled For FamilyInquiry Or Review
Sources
- Newborn baby separated from parents for almost a year after hospital staff made false child abuse claims · Daily Mirror · Court Decision