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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 |
| 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 |
| Kirklees Baby's Mother | Kirklees Council took a week-old baby from hospital after misleading a judge; the High Court found it breached the family's human rights and ordered damages. | Returned After Court Action Home after about three months | ENG, United Kingdom | 2017 |
| Temecia And Rodney Jackson | Police helped CPS take three-day-old Mila from her parents' home after they chose midwife care for jaundice; the affidavit named the wrong mother. | Returned After Court Action Returned after 22 days when DFPS dropped the case | DeSoto, TX, United States | 2023 |
| Welsh Baby With Von Willebrand Disease | A baby was wrongly removed for six months over a single bruise after a GP's child protection medical skipped tests; he had a bleeding disorder. | Returned After Court Action Returned after six months | Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |