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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underage Winnipeg Mother (2023) | A video shows a CFS worker taking a three-day-old baby from an Indigenous family at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre despite a safe after-birth plan. | Baby Returned Returned after public protest, about three days later | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2023 |
| Winnipeg Mother Whose Baby's Removal Was Live-Streamed | Police carried away a two-day-old girl in a car seat at a Winnipeg hospital under a birth alert; the mother had asked social services for help before the birth. | Placed With Kin Guardianship transferred to her aunt; mother cares for her regularly | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2022 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Baby J's Mother (Staffordshire) | Staffordshire social workers took a six-hour-old baby from his married parents under an emergency protection order; the father's video of the removal was cleared for publication. | Foster Care | ENG, United Kingdom | 2013 |