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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Verna Joseph | Security guards restrained a breastfeeding mother at King George Hospital and took her three-week-old daughter in public view, then she was sectioned without being told. | Baby Returned Returned after six days | Ilford, ENG, United Kingdom | 2011 |
| Tonita Rogers | A Riverside County social worker took a three-day-old baby from her mother's breast in a hospital room without a warrant, only because her siblings were already in care. | Baby Returned Returned 5 to 10 days later | Riverside, CA, United States | 2014 |
| Irvine Mum | North Ayrshire social workers took a mother's son three hours after a caesarean; a sheriff later found the social worker 'disliked' her and the evidence was plainly wrong. | Returned After Court Action Returned after seven months | Irvine, SCT, United Kingdom | 2015 |
| North Ayrshire Mother | Social workers took a baby three hours after his caesarean birth; a sheriff overturned the order, finding the evidence 'unsubstantiated' and possibly 'fabrication'. | Returned After Court Action | SCT, United Kingdom | 2015 |
| 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 |
| Rebecca Sanders And Justin Johnson | A Miccosukee police officer took two-day-old Ingrid from Baptist Hospital in Kendall while her mother was breastfeeding, using a tribal court order the grandmother obtained. | Returned After Court Action Returned after a tribal court hearing four days later | Kendall, FL, United States | 2018 |
| Teenage Mother With An Intellectual Disability | NSW DCJ planned months before the birth to take a teenage mother's son at birth and stop her breastfeeding; the Children's Court threw the case out. | Returned After Court Action Back with his mother within days | NSW, Australia | 2020 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Laxmi Thapa | A breastfeeding Nepalese mother was arrested and held 20 hours in a police cell, separated from her baby, after hospital staff mistook his blue spot birthmarks for bruises. | Baby Returned Returned after 20 hours; social services found no danger | Basingstoke, ENG, United Kingdom | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |