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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 |
| 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 |
| Stacie Cottle | A Spanish hospital and police seized a British mother's day-old daughter, claiming she was too old to be a newborn, and refused to release her until a DNA test. | Case Ongoing Held pending a DNA test (two weeks at the time of reporting) | Vélez-Málaga, Andalusia, Spain | 2015 |
| 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 |
| Grace And Michael Smith | St. Luke's staff mistook Grace's prescribed ADHD medication for methamphetamine, took her newborn son to the NICU and barred the parents; a month-long investigation found no abuse. | Baby Returned Investigation found no abuse | PA, United States | 2022 |
| Chanetto Rivers | New York's ACS separated Chanetto from her newborn son for his first week over a cannabis test taken without consent, when cannabis was legal; the city settled. | Returned After Court Action Reunited by a judge; city paid $75,000 plus fees | Bronx, NY, United States | 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 |
| Walidah Burns | After Walidah refused to be induced at Duke Regional Hospital, she was involuntarily committed, had an emergency caesarean and lost her newborn son to Durham County CPS. | Foster Care Still in care a year later | Durham, NC, United States | 2025 |