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City-level estimates; country centres are used where a town cannot be located. Geography: GeoNames and Natural Earth.
| Mother / Alias ↕ | Quick summary ↕ | Outcome ↕ | Jurisdiction ↕ | Year ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anastasia Zavgorodnyaya | Finnish social services took a Russian-born mother's four children, including her week-old newborn, after an injury her daughter says happened at school. | Foster Care | Vantaa, Finland | 2012 |
| Baby G's Mother (Nottingham) | Nottingham social services took an 18-year-old's son two hours after birth without a court order; the High Court returned him the same day, then a judge ordered him into care. | Foster Care Interim care order after an illegal first removal | Nottingham, ENG, United Kingdom | 2012 |
| Baby J's Mother (Staffordshire) | Staffordshire social workers took a six-hour-old baby from his married parents under an emergency protection order; the father's video of the removal was cleared for publication. | Foster Care | ENG, United Kingdom | 2013 |
| Coventry Mother Of Nine | After eight children were taken into care, a Coventry mother secretly gave birth at home and fled; she was caught registering her son under a false name. | Foster Care All nine children in local authority care | Coventry, ENG, United Kingdom | 2014 |
| Lev Tahor Teenage Mother | Police at Calgary airport helped Chatham-Kent children's services apprehend a 17-year-old Lev Tahor mother and her five-month-old daughter under an Ontario order. | Foster Care | Chatham, ON, Canada | 2014 |
| Sara Gordon | Massachusetts DCF took a 19-year-old mother's daughter two days after birth because of her intellectual disability; federal investigators found the state violated her civil rights. | Foster Care State moving to terminate parental rights at the time | MA, United States | 2015 |
| Ashish Pareek's Wife | New Jersey DCPP placed an Indian couple's two-month-old in foster care, alleging shaken baby syndrome; the family says he slipped and hit a TV stand. | Foster Care | Jersey City, NJ, United States | 2016 |
| Cs And CT's Granddaughter (NT) | Grandparents told the NT royal commission welfare workers took their Aboriginal granddaughter from hospital the moment she was born, without warning or interpreters, and moved her interstate. | Foster Care Living interstate; grandparents may visit | NT, Australia | 2017 |
| Irish Mother (Tusla Emergency Order) | Gardaí and social workers forcibly removed a one-day-old girl from her breastfeeding mother at an Irish maternity hospital under an emergency order made without the mother being heard. | Foster Care | Ireland | 2018 |
| Baby H's Mother | BC social workers took 'Baby H' from her Indigenous parents 90 minutes after a caesarean at a Kamloops hospital, citing a report of neglect the family says was false. | Foster Care Still in foster care at her first birthday | Kamloops, BC, Canada | 2019 |
| Rachel And Andrew | Oranga Tamariki uplifted a couple's fifth baby from the neonatal unit five hours after an emergency caesarean, citing 'hygiene issues' at home; all their children were taken at birth. | Foster Care | TKI, New Zealand | 2019 |
| Baby H's Brother's Mother | A year after 'Baby H' was taken, the same Chilcotin couple's premature son was seized from his incubator shortly after birth, despite BC's ban on birth alerts. | Foster Care | BC, Canada | 2020 |
| Heather Smith | An Ohio mother says she could not take her newborn home because the hospital mixed her up with another patient who tested positive for meth and fentanyl; the baby's own tests were clean. | Foster Care | Zanesville, OH, United States | 2021 |
| Mila (Perth) | Child protection removed a young Aboriginal mother's son hours after birth at Perth's largest public hospital because her older child was in care and she was seen as 'non-compliant'. | Foster Care | Perth, WA, Australia | 2021 |
| Syesha Mercado | Former American Idol finalist Syesha Mercado's newborn daughter was taken by Florida child protection at a roadside welfare check, months after her son was removed. | Foster Care | Sarasota, FL, United States | 2021 |
| Chelsey Woodward | A Cree mother says a social worker took her two-day-old daughter at Surrey Memorial Hospital and told her to 'stop wailing'. | Foster Care | Surrey, BC, Canada | 2023 |
| Indigenous Quebec Mother | An Indigenous mother says Quebec youth protection took her newborn son in hospital without explanation, after telling her before the birth her home was safe. | Foster Care | QC, Canada | 2023 |
| Nova Scotia Mother Of Five | Child protection took a Nova Scotia woman's newborn after he fractured his skull in a fall; she disputes the account that she fell asleep holding him. | Foster Care | NS, Canada | 2023 |
| Sonja And Philip Hathaway | Police met a First Nations mother and Métis father at Victoria General's NICU to say MCFD had taken their premature daughter, despite their release plan. | Foster Care | Victoria, BC, Canada | 2023 |
| Andrew And Lauren Hackney | Allegheny County took a couple's seven-month-old daughter after a hospital stay for dehydration and gave her to non-disabled foster parents; they sued for disability discrimination. | Foster Care | Pittsburgh, PA, United States | 2024 |
| Emma | A first-time South Australian mother says DCP took her baby the morning after a difficult birth, without ever telling her during pregnancy it had concerns. | Foster Care Strict supervised visits; working to regain guardianship | SA, Australia | 2024 |
| Briana | An Aboriginal mother in WA says the Department of Communities took her baby when she could not find stable housing: 'They never had an issue with my parenting until I didn't have a roof over my head.' | Foster Care | WA, Australia | 2025 |
| Cree Mother At Hsc Women's Hospital | Hospital social workers seized a Cree mother's newborn at Winnipeg's HSC Women's Hospital within three days, though her aunt and First Nation were arranging housing and kinship care. | Foster Care | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2025 |
| Esther Lopez-Sanchez | A Mexican mother in ICE detention says DCS kept her US-born daughter after she gave birth while in jail; she had the baby for two and a half days. | Foster Care | Nashville, TN, United States | 2025 |
| Marianna | A Hungarian mother says her premature son was kept in hospital for three months with no medical reason and then placed in foster care. | Foster Care | Hungary | 2025 |
| Molly C | When Molly went to hospital after her partner assaulted her, the hospital called WA's Department of Communities and her baby was taken. | Foster Care | WA, Australia | 2025 |
| Walidah Burns | After Walidah refused to be induced at Duke Regional Hospital, she was involuntarily committed, had an emergency caesarean and lost her newborn son to Durham County CPS. | Foster Care Still in care a year later | Durham, NC, United States | 2025 |
| Zita And Ravi | Oranga Tamariki took an Indian couple's baby with 39 fractures in 2018 and the mother was jailed; the family says low calcium and vitamin D were the cause. | Foster Care | New Zealand | 2025 |
| Autistic Mother In Dublin | Tusla took an autistic mother's newborn son in Dublin after a social worker admitted including 'unfounded' allegations in referrals to mother and baby units; hospital staff called her 'caring, calm and competent'. | Foster Care | Dublin, Ireland | 2026 |
| Hannah | A homeless mother living in a tent says Child Safety officers took her two-day-old baby from Redcliffe Hospital while she waited for social housing. | Case Ongoing Department preparing an assessment report | Redcliffe, QLD, Australia | 2026 |
| Keira Alexandra Kronvold | A Greenlandic mother in Denmark had her newborn daughter Zammi taken two hours after birth, after a Danish 'parenting competency' test. | Foster Care High court ruled the removal illegal in May 2026; Zammi was still with a foster family | Thisted, North Jutland, Denmark | 2026 |
| Mykel And Lakeith Ray | Police bodycam shows officers taking the Rays' newborn son from Mykel's arms in her hospital bed hours after birth, over a six-year-old case. | Foster Care Still fighting to get him back | IL, United States | 2026 |
| Nita P. | A Wisconsin couple travelling through Illinois had their newborn son taken by DCFS hours after birth over a drug claim that tests later showed was untrue. | Foster Care Still fighting to get him back | IL, United States | 2026 |
| Sandy Bay Ojibway Mother | A First Nations mother says CFS took her healthy newborn from her room at Portage District General Hospital with no paperwork or explanation. | Case Ongoing | Portage La Prairie, MB, Canada | 2026 |
| Valencia Mother Who Fled | A Valencia mother who had already lost a baby over a cannabis test fled hospital with her newborn to stop social services taking her; police found them 18 days later. | Foster Care Taken into emergency care at under a month old | Valencia, V, Spain | 2026 |