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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 |
| Kathleen Rogers | Social workers and security took Kathleen's three-day-old son while she was breastfeeding at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre; the agency later admitted she posed no threat. | Returned After Court Action Regained custody after three months in court | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2010 |
| Neecha Dupuis | A nurse at The Ottawa Hospital warned that CAS would take Neecha's baby if he tested positive for cannabis; at discharge she was told she couldn't leave because CAS had 'red-flagged' her. | Baby Returned Kept her baby after an advocate intervened | Ottawa, ON, Canada | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Huu-Ay-Aht Mother | MCFD took a Huu-ay-aht mother's daughter three days after birth; a judge ordered the baby returned two months later to live with her mother in a Nation-supported home. | Returned After Court Action Returned after almost two months, to a Nation-supported home | Port Alberni, BC, Canada | 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 |
| 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 |
| Hawke's Bay Mother (Son) | Police and Oranga Tamariki tried to uplift a 19-year-old Māori mother's seven-day-old son at Hawke's Bay Hospital under a without-notice order; midwives were locked out, but the uplift was stopped. | Baby Returned Uplift stopped; she kept her son | Hastings, HKB, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Winnipeg Mother Whose Baby's Removal Was Live-Streamed | Police carried away a two-day-old girl in a car seat at a Winnipeg hospital under a birth alert; the mother had asked social services for help before the birth. | Placed With Kin Guardianship transferred to her aunt; mother cares for her regularly | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2022 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hawke's Bay Mother (Daughter) | Oranga Tamariki took a young Māori mother's first baby, a daughter, in 2018; after a long battle she brought her home in 2024. | Baby Returned Home after about six years with non-whānau carers | Hastings, HKB, New Zealand | 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 |
| Ivana Brønlund | Municipal authorities took 18-year-old Greenlandic mother Ivana Brønlund's daughter one hour after birth; a national appeals board reversed the decision six weeks later. | Returned After Court Action Appeals board reversed the removal on 22 September 2025 | Capital Region, Denmark | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |