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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maricyl Palisoc And Charles Wilton | Peel Children's Aid threatened to take a month-old baby from parents with cerebral palsy unless an 'able-bodied attendant' cared for him around the clock. | Case Ongoing Threatened removal; baby still at home at the time | Mississauga, ON, Canada | 2012 |
| Stacie Cottle | A Spanish hospital and police seized a British mother's day-old daughter, claiming she was too old to be a newborn, and refused to release her until a DNA test. | Case Ongoing Held pending a DNA test (two weeks at the time of reporting) | Vélez-Málaga, Andalusia, Spain | 2015 |
| Chloe (England, Four Sons) | A care leaver had all four of her sons removed at birth or soon after; all were fathered by the same violent man who once tried to kill her. | Unknown All four sons removed | ENG, United Kingdom | 2016 |
| Jessica Battiato | A Berks County couple's three-month-old was taken into state care after scans found 20 fractures; the parents say a medical cause was missed. | Unknown | PA, United States | 2016 |
| Newcastle Mother Of 17 Removed Children | A Newcastle mother had 17 children removed by the local authority over 30 years, many taken after birth; charities say women like her need help, not repeat removals. | Adopted 17 children removed over 30 years | Newcastle Upon Tyne, ENG, United Kingdom | 2016 |
| Mauricia Ibáñez | Social services in Burgos took 64-year-old Mauricia Ibáñez's IVF twins less than two months after birth. | Foster Care | Burgos, Spain | 2017 |
| Josephine Gillan | An actress says Israeli social services took her eight-month-old daughter at night while she was in therapy for postnatal depression. | Unknown | Israel | 2019 |
| Sarah Perkins And Josh Sabey | Massachusetts DCF took a sick three-month-old and his brother in the night without a judge's approval after an X-ray showed a small rib fracture. | Unknown | MA, United States | 2022 |
| Chloe (NSW) | A young woman who grew up in state care says DCJ took her newborn son because of a conflict between her partner and her mother. | Unknown | NSW, Australia | 2023 |
| Kimberly Smart | A Mitchells Plain mother says social workers forged her signature to sign her premature twins out of Mowbray Maternity Hospital. | Foster Care | Mitchells Plain, South Africa | 2023 |
| Sheshatshiu Innu Mother (Daughter) | An Innu mother was told to find someone to take her newborn daughter and go to a 90-day treatment program; she asked for the family program where she could keep her baby. | Foster Care | Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, Canada | 2023 |
| Sheshatshiu Innu Mother (Son) | An Innu mother told an inquiry that while a nurse fed her newborn son she was sent outside for a cigarette, and when she came back he had been taken. | Foster Care | Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, Canada | 2023 |
| Flinders Medical Centre Mother | A confidential review found a baby was taken out of its mother's room at Flinders Medical Centre before child protection workers had authorised the removal. | Foster Care | Adelaide, SA, Australia | 2024 |
| Ella (London) | Days after giving birth, Ella appeared by laptop from her hospital bed to fight a council's emergency application to take her daughter into care. | Case Ongoing | London, ENG, United Kingdom | 2025 |
| Hailey (Missouri) | A 16-year-old in Missouri foster care was temporarily separated from her newborn daughter and moved to a different placement until she agreed to go to a faith-based maternity home. | Case Ongoing | MO, United States | 2025 |
| Kristen Clark-Hassell | Georgia's DFCS took Kristen's baby 'off my breast in the hallway' after a court hearing, relying on drug tests from a lab later accused of up to 30% inaccurate results. | Foster Care | Savannah, GA, United States | 2025 |
| Vermont Mother (Aclu Lawsuit) | Vermont's DCF obtained custody before the baby was born, and hospital staff took the newborn before her mother could hold her. | Unknown | VT, United States | 2025 |
| Foster Teen Mother (Bethel, Alaska) | A judge sanctioned Alaska's OCS for unnecessarily removing a newborn from his mother, a teenager in foster care, finding a supervisor's testimony 'anything but truthful'. | Unknown | Bethel, AK, United States | 2026 |