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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 |
| Lev Tahor Teenage Mother | Police at Calgary airport helped Chatham-Kent children's services apprehend a 17-year-old Lev Tahor mother and her five-month-old daughter under an Ontario order. | Foster Care | Chatham, ON, Canada | 2014 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lily Arthur | Jailed in 1967 for being unmarried and pregnant at 17, Lily was shackled to a bed at Brisbane Women's Hospital and her son was taken for adoption; she has taken her fight to the UN. | Adopted | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2024 |
| 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 |