Gina Hodgkins
Reference: HBYN-DSLB-75ZF-MLJ8
- Outcome
- Baby Returned
- Outcome detail
- Returned after five months
- Jurisdiction
- ENG, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2018
- Account type
- Mother's Account
Quick summary
- Quick summary
- Seven police and two social workers took a six-week-old with birth bruising from his mother; he was later diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Full story
- Full story
- Gina Hodgkins, 25, had Teddy at Epsom Hospital. Six weeks later a health visitor saw bruising from the birth and called social services and police. Two social workers and seven plain-clothed officers came to her home; she was arrested on suspicion of ABH, and Teddy and his sister Amelia went into emergency foster care for five months. Teddy was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Where
- Hospital
- Epsom Hospital
- Agency
- Local authority children's services (not named)
- State
- ENG
- Country
- United Kingdom
- First Nations
- Not Stated
The removal
- When the baby was taken
- First Year
- Baby's age when taken
- 6 weeks
- Where the baby was taken from
- Home
- Stated reasons
- Unexplained Injury Alleged
- How it was done
- Police Involved
- What happened during separation
- Siblings Also Removed
Support after
- Grief counselling offered
- Not Stated
Getting baby back
- Did she get her baby back
- Yes
- Time apart
- 5 months
- Where the baby is now
- Returned To Both Parents