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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verna Joseph | Security guards restrained a breastfeeding mother at King George Hospital and took her three-week-old daughter in public view, then she was sectioned without being told. | Baby Returned Returned after six days | Ilford, ENG, United Kingdom | 2011 |
| Alessandra Pacchieri | An Italian woman sectioned in Essex had her baby delivered by court-ordered caesarean under general anaesthetic; the baby was taken by Essex County Council and placed for adoption. | Adopted | Essex, 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 |
| 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 |
| E. (Gitxsan Mother) | Social workers seized a Gitxsan mother's premature newborn at BC Women's Hospital the day after an emergency caesarean; a lawyer fought and the baby was returned. | Returned After Court Action | Vancouver, BC, Canada | 2019 |
| Josephine Gillan | An actress says Israeli social services took her eight-month-old daughter at night while she was in therapy for postnatal depression. | Unknown | Israel | 2019 |
| Peter's Mother (Jersey) | Jersey's Health Minister applied to take a newborn from his parents on the maternity ward; the Royal Court dismissed the 'draconian' order for lack of evidence. | Baby Returned Removal order refused; baby stayed with his parents | Jersey | 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 |
| Sarah-Jane Poole | A British mother fled to France to stop her son being taken at birth because of teenage depression; French social services found she posed no risk. | Baby Returned Kept her son after fleeing to France; removal avoided | ENG, United Kingdom | 2019 |
| Jessica (Brandon) | CFS took a Brandon couple's two-day-old son from Brandon Regional Health Centre after a nurse questioned the father's ADHD and claimed he muttered about shaking the baby. | Baby Returned Returned after about ten weeks | Brandon, MB, Canada | 2021 |
| 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 |
| Marianna | A Hungarian mother says her premature son was kept in hospital for three months with no medical reason and then placed in foster care. | Foster Care | Hungary | 2025 |
| 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 |
| 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 |