Explain why you snatched baby girl at birth: Judge's order to social workers behind forced caesarean

The judge who heads the family courts, Sir
James Munby, has demanded to know why
the girl should not be reunited with her mother

Social workers who made a mother give up her baby after a forced caesarean must explain themselves to Britain’s top family judge.

In a highly unusual intervention, Sir James Munby has demanded to know why the girl should not be reunited with her mother, a 35-year-old Italian.

Fabio Roia, the most senior judge in Milan, said the woman’s treatment by a secret court resembled a horror film – an unprecedented ‘act of extreme violence’ that could not have happened in Italy.

The mother, who was suffering from a mental illness, was subjected to a caesarean on the orders of the controversial Court of Protection.  (more...)

Explain why you snatched baby girl at birth: Judge's order to social workers behind forced caesarean