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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Worthing Baby's Mother | A baby was separated from his parents for almost a year after Worthing Hospital staff wrongly concluded he had been shaken; a judge found no-one had harmed him. | Returned After Court Action Returned to mother after almost a year | Worthing, ENG, United Kingdom | 2015 |
| Ashish Pareek's Wife | New Jersey DCPP placed an Indian couple's two-month-old in foster care, alleging shaken baby syndrome; the family says he slipped and hit a TV stand. | Foster Care | Jersey City, NJ, United States | 2016 |
| Jessica Battiato | A Berks County couple's three-month-old was taken into state care after scans found 20 fractures; the parents say a medical cause was missed. | Unknown | PA, United States | 2016 |
| Carla Andrews And Craig Stillwell | A three-month-old with a brain bleed went into emergency foster care for nine months until her parents proved she had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. | Returned After Court Action | United Kingdom | 2017 |
| Gina Hodgkins | Seven police and two social workers took a six-week-old with birth bruising from his mother; he was later diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. | Baby Returned Returned after five months | ENG, United Kingdom | 2018 |
| Crystal And Jarvis Bryant | A Colorado couple's five-month-old was in foster care for 164 days over alleged broken bones before it emerged he had a bone disorder. | Baby Returned Returned after 164 days | Colorado Springs, CO, United States | 2020 |
| Sarah Perkins And Josh Sabey | Massachusetts DCF took a sick three-month-old and his brother in the night without a judge's approval after an X-ray showed a small rib fracture. | Unknown | MA, United States | 2022 |
| Nova Scotia Mother Of Five | Child protection took a Nova Scotia woman's newborn after he fractured his skull in a fall; she disputes the account that she fell asleep holding him. | Foster Care | NS, Canada | 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 |
| 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 |
| Zita And Ravi | Oranga Tamariki took an Indian couple's baby with 39 fractures in 2018 and the mother was jailed; the family says low calcium and vitamin D were the cause. | Foster Care | New Zealand | 2025 |