I want my daughter, I'm suffering like an animal: Forced caesarean mother speaks out

Mr Justice Mostyn, sitting in the secretive Court of Protection, which makes decisions
for incapacitated people, ruled the caesarean was in the woman's best interests

A mother whose baby was taken after a forced caesarean broke her silence over her ordeal yesterday – as the council involved made an extraordinary bid to gag the Press.

Essex County Council demanded restrictions on Press coverage after the mother whose child was put up for adoption by its social workers said she had been treated ‘like an animal’.

The 35-year-old Italian woman, who suffers from a mental illness, described her horror after her baby daughter was taken from her womb without her knowledge or consent.

She said nobody had even told her she was having the procedure until she woke up and found that her baby had been removed.

And she said she has now been banned from seeing her baby for five months by social workers who ignored her desperate pleas for the child to be returned.

The air hostess said: ‘I was sedated and deceived to give birth - that's how they took my daughter. I want my daughter back - I am suffering like an animal.

'They forced me to have a Caesarean without telling me anything.

'The day of the birth I thought they were just moving me from one room to another - I was telling them I wanted to go back to Italy. Then I was sedated. Then when I woke up she wasn't with me. They took her away from me.'  (more...)

I want my daughter, I'm suffering like an animal: Forced caesarean mother speaks out

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I could feel my baby kicking inside me. I was crying as I begged them not to cut me open