Audrey Redman
Reference: DR9N-CV36-XPJR-RUH6
- Outcome
- Baby Returned
- Outcome detail
- Returned after 10 days once they found a rental
- Jurisdiction
- Vernon, BC, Canada
- Year
- 1972
- Account type
- Mother's Account
Quick summary
- Quick summary
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital refused to release Audrey's newborn son in 1972 until she and his father found a home; it took them 10 days.
Full story
- Full story
- Audrey Redman, a Sixties Scoop survivor, gave birth to her son at Vernon Jubilee Hospital in British Columbia on 13 August 1972 while travelling across North America. Before she could hold him she was told: 'They told us that they wouldn't let him go until we had a home.' For 10 days she and the baby's father searched for a rental nearby, thousands of kilometres from their home in Toronto, to get their son back.
Where
- Hospital
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital
- City
- Vernon
- State
- BC
- Country
- Canada
- First Nations
- Yes
The removal
- When the baby was taken
- At Birth (Delivery Room)
- Where the baby was taken from
- Maternity Ward
- Stated reasons
- Homelessness Or Housing
- How it was done
- Hospital Hold (No Agency Order)
- What happened during separation
- Not Allowed To Hold Baby
Support after
- Grief counselling offered
- Not Stated
Getting baby back
- Steps taken
- Moved House
- Did she get her baby back
- Yes
- Time apart
- 10 days
- Where the baby is now
- Returned To Both Parents