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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Hernandez | Alabama DHR took Rebecca's healthy newborn son four hours after birth because of a positive opiate test, which turned out to be poppy seed bread. | Baby Returned Reunited after the test was shown to be a false positive | Huntsville, AL, United States | 2020 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mother Before Judge Mary Lou Alvarez | A Bexar County judge ordered a four-day-old baby taken from his mother at a paternity hearing and held at the courthouse before CPS was even notified. | Baby Returned Returned to the mother on 21 October | San Antonio, TX, United States | 2025 |
| Hannah | A homeless mother living in a tent says Child Safety officers took her two-day-old baby from Redcliffe Hospital while she waited for social housing. | Case Ongoing Department preparing an assessment report | Redcliffe, QLD, Australia | 2026 |