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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Anastasia Zavgorodnyaya | Finnish social services took a Russian-born mother's four children, including her week-old newborn, after an injury her daughter says happened at school. | Foster Care | Vantaa, Finland | 2012 |
| 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 |
| Annie Bertram | North Tyneside social workers took Annie's six-day-old son Huw into foster care with a plan for adoption; she fought and he came home at nearly nine months old. | Returned After Court Action Came home at nearly nine months old | North Tyneside, ENG, United Kingdom | 2014 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Melissa April | Melissa never held her first two babies: both were apprehended at birth under birth alerts; with Sanctum 1.5's support she kept her third. | Placed With Kin First two daughters with her sister; she kept her third baby | Saskatoon, SK, 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 |
| 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 |
| Syesha Mercado | Former American Idol finalist Syesha Mercado's newborn daughter was taken by Florida child protection at a roadside welfare check, months after her son was removed. | Foster Care | Sarasota, FL, United States | 2021 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |