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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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hannah | A homeless mother living in a tent says Child Safety officers took her two-day-old baby from Redcliffe Hospital while she waited for social housing. | Case Ongoing Department preparing an assessment report | Redcliffe, QLD, Australia | 2026 |
| Briana | An Aboriginal mother in WA says the Department of Communities took her baby when she could not find stable housing: 'They never had an issue with my parenting until I didn't have a roof over my head.' | Foster Care | WA, Australia | 2025 |
| Cree Mother At Hsc Women's Hospital | Hospital social workers seized a Cree mother's newborn at Winnipeg's HSC Women's Hospital within three days, though her aunt and First Nation were arranging housing and kinship care. | Foster Care | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Emma | A first-time South Australian mother says DCP took her baby the morning after a difficult birth, without ever telling her during pregnancy it had concerns. | Foster Care Strict supervised visits; working to regain guardianship | SA, Australia | 2024 |
| Sonja And Philip Hathaway | Police met a First Nations mother and Métis father at Victoria General's NICU to say MCFD had taken their premature daughter, despite their release plan. | Foster Care | Victoria, BC, Canada | 2023 |
| Mila (Perth) | Child protection removed a young Aboriginal mother's son hours after birth at Perth's largest public hospital because her older child was in care and she was seen as 'non-compliant'. | Foster Care | Perth, WA, Australia | 2021 |
| Baby H's Mother | BC social workers took 'Baby H' from her Indigenous parents 90 minutes after a caesarean at a Kamloops hospital, citing a report of neglect the family says was false. | Foster Care Still in foster care at her first birthday | Kamloops, BC, Canada | 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 |
| Audrey Redman | Vernon Jubilee Hospital refused to release Audrey's newborn son in 1972 until she and his father found a home; it took them 10 days. | Baby Returned Returned after 10 days once they found a rental | Vernon, BC, Canada | 1972 |