The Sunday Telegraph reports a woman was forcibly sedated and her child removed from her womb after Essex Social Services obtained a court order.
The Sunday Telegraph has a stunning exclusive: A baby was removed from a woman's womb following a High Court order in August 2012.
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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.
Via telegraph.co.uk
She came to Britain in July last year to attend a training course with an airline at Stansted airport, and was taken to a psychiatric facility after a panic attack. Her relations believe it was due to her failure to take regular medication for an existing bipolar condition.
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.
Via telegraph.co.uk
