Excerpted from THE TELEGRAPH A pregnant woman has had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section by social workers.
Essex social services obtained a High Court order against the woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and her child to be taken from her womb.
The council said it was acting in the best interests of the woman, an Italian who was in Britain on a work trip, because she had suffered a mental breakdown.
The baby girl, now 15 months old, is still in the care of social services, who are refusing to give her back to the mother, even though she claims to have made a full recovery.
The case has developed into an international legal row, with lawyers for the woman describing it as “unprecedented”. They claim that even if the council had been acting in the woman’s best interests, officials should have consulted her family beforehand and also involved Italian social services, who would be better-placed to look after the child.
Brendan Fleming, the woman’s British lawyer, told The Sunday Telegraph: “I have never heard of anything like this in all my 40 years in the job.
“I can understand if someone is very ill that they may not be able to consent to a medical procedure, but a forced caesarean is unprecedented. Keep Reading
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So easy to say, so hard to prove. What a great system.
Yep and CPS said they ran away, no big deal.
Yes, didn't something like 78 children disappear from CPS care in Oklahoma?
Keith that is a very real possibility as it is very common.
It's believable. Our local CPS was trying to steal two children (my son's girlfriend's kids, then 10 and 6). I stepped in and tangled with the caseworker, who was particularly nasty. I took some bruises, but they didn't get the kids. They are out of Virginia now.
This story is almost to bizarre to believe.
Since when is a violent removal of a baby from its mother in its best interests?
CPS is just plain evil and should be disbanded.