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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion McMillan | Sent away at 17 to a Salvation Army mother and baby home in 1966, Marion begged staff to let her keep her son, but he was taken for adoption. | Adopted | Newcastle Upon Tyne, ENG, United Kingdom | 1966 |
| Lily McDonald | At 16 Lily McDonald was jailed, made a ward of the state and sent to a Brisbane Sisters of Mercy home where her newborn was taken. | Adopted Historic forced adoption | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 1967 |
| Jude Hudson | Hidden at Kedesh Maternity Home at 15, Jude Hudson had her daughter taken at birth in 1969 for forced adoption; she is applying to Victoria's redress scheme. | Adopted Historic forced adoption | Kew, VIC, Australia | 1969 |
| 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 |
| Alessandra Pacchieri | An Italian woman sectioned in Essex had her baby delivered by court-ordered caesarean under general anaesthetic; the baby was taken by Essex County Council and placed for adoption. | Adopted | Essex, ENG, United Kingdom | 2013 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lily Arthur | Jailed in 1967 for being unmarried and pregnant at 17, Lily was shackled to a bed at Brisbane Women's Hospital and her son was taken for adoption; she has taken her fight to the UN. | Adopted | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Magdalena (Warsaw) | Police detained a Warsaw mother over unserved community service; four days later her four-month-old son died in foster care, and officials then moved to take her newborn. | Baby Died | Warsaw, Poland | 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 |