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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion McMillan | Sent away at 17 to a Salvation Army mother and baby home in 1966, Marion begged staff to let her keep her son, but he was taken for adoption. | Adopted | Newcastle Upon Tyne, ENG, United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Zoe's Mother | Hungarian authorities kept baby Zoe from her poor Roma family, judging the mother 'unfit' because of a limp and controlled epilepsy. | Returned After Court Action Reunited with her family for Christmas | Hungary | 2024 |
| Ivana Brønlund | Municipal authorities took 18-year-old Greenlandic mother Ivana Brønlund's daughter one hour after birth; a national appeals board reversed the decision six weeks later. | Returned After Court Action Appeals board reversed the removal on 22 September 2025 | Capital Region, Denmark | 2025 |
| 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 |