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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audrey Redman | 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. | Baby Returned Returned after 10 days once they found a rental | Vernon, BC, Canada | 1972 |
| Elizabeth Mort | Social workers and police took Elizabeth's newborn daughter from home for five days after a hospital opiate test picked up poppy seeds from an everything bagel. | Baby Returned Returned after five days | New Castle, PA, United States | 2010 |
| Daisy Bram | Butte County took a nursing newborn and his toddler brother for four months after their parents' arrest for growing cannabis. | Baby Returned Returned after four months | CA, United States | 2011 |
| Carla Andrews And Craig Stillwell | A three-month-old with a brain bleed went into emergency foster care for nine months until her parents proved she had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. | Returned After Court Action | United Kingdom | 2017 |
| Kirklees Baby's Mother | Kirklees Council took a week-old baby from hospital after misleading a judge; the High Court found it breached the family's human rights and ordered damages. | Returned After Court Action Home after about three months | ENG, United Kingdom | 2017 |
| Gina Hodgkins | 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. | Baby Returned Returned after five months | ENG, United Kingdom | 2018 |
| Chicago Couple Who Refused The Vitamin K Shot | A nurse reported a Chicago couple to DCFS and left with their newborn daughter after they refused a vitamin K shot for religious reasons. | Baby Returned Returned after 12 hours | Chicago, IL, United States | 2019 |
| E. (Gitxsan Mother) | Social workers seized a Gitxsan mother's premature newborn at BC Women's Hospital the day after an emergency caesarean; a lawyer fought and the baby was returned. | Returned After Court Action | Vancouver, BC, Canada | 2019 |
| Peter's Mother (Jersey) | Jersey's Health Minister applied to take a newborn from his parents on the maternity ward; the Royal Court dismissed the 'draconian' order for lack of evidence. | Baby Returned Removal order refused; baby stayed with his parents | Jersey | 2019 |
| Brandon Couple (Michif Cfs) | Michif CFS took a Brandon couple's son at birth because the mother, a domestic violence victim, had pleaded guilty years earlier to failing to protect her daughter; a judge later ordered him returned. | Returned After Court Action Judge ordered the boy returned within three months, at 14 months old | Brandon, MB, Canada | 2020 |
| Crystal And Jarvis Bryant | A Colorado couple's five-month-old was in foster care for 164 days over alleged broken bones before it emerged he had a bone disorder. | Baby Returned Returned after 164 days | Colorado Springs, CO, United States | 2020 |
| Jessica (Brandon) | CFS took a Brandon couple's two-day-old son from Brandon Regional Health Centre after a nurse questioned the father's ADHD and claimed he muttered about shaking the baby. | Baby Returned Returned after about ten weeks | Brandon, MB, Canada | 2021 |
| Grace And Michael Smith | St. Luke's staff mistook Grace's prescribed ADHD medication for methamphetamine, took her newborn son to the NICU and barred the parents; a month-long investigation found no abuse. | Baby Returned Investigation found no abuse | PA, United States | 2022 |
| Jessie (Leeds) | After four children were taken into care, Jessie's fifth baby Freddie was removed at birth under an interim care order; she turned her life around and won him back. | Returned After Court Action | Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom | 2023 |
| Temecia And Rodney Jackson | Police helped CPS take three-day-old Mila from her parents' home after they chose midwife care for jaundice; the affidavit named the wrong mother. | Returned After Court Action Returned after 22 days when DFPS dropped the case | DeSoto, TX, United States | 2023 |
| Underage Winnipeg Mother (2023) | A video shows a CFS worker taking a three-day-old baby from an Indigenous family at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre despite a safe after-birth plan. | Baby Returned Returned after public protest, about three days later | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2023 |
| Welsh Baby With Von Willebrand Disease | A baby was wrongly removed for six months over a single bruise after a GP's child protection medical skipped tests; he had a bleeding disorder. | Returned After Court Action Returned after six months | Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom | 2024 |
| Zoe's Mother | Hungarian authorities kept baby Zoe from her poor Roma family, judging the mother 'unfit' because of a limp and controlled epilepsy. | Returned After Court Action Reunited with her family for Christmas | Hungary | 2024 |