Sunday 2 August 2009

Legalised Kidnapping

I have written previously about children being taken from their parents, seemingly in order to meet adoption targets.

Yet another case is that of 24 year old Rachel who was deemed 'too stupid' to care for her daughter. There has never been any suggestion that she would harm her, just that she has been deemed 'too stupid' to provide proper care.

Adding to the outrage, she was not even allowed to instruct her own solicitor to fight her case! Because she was 'too stupid' the court appointed official solicitor was brought in to represent her. Unsurprisingly, it was deemed that it was in her best interest to agree to the adoption (regardless of how much she opposed it), so the solicitor agreed on her behalf - end of court case!

Her only hope now is the European Court of Human Rights, if the case can be heard before adoption proceeedings are completed, otherwise she may never again see her daughter as a child.

These atrocities are heard time after time after time, what sort of country do we live in?

http://www.no2abuse.com/index.php/news/comments/court-takes-child-of-stupid-mother/

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6396039.ece

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189836/They-stole-little-girl-says-mother-judged-stupid-care-baby.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5417283/Social-services-in-Nottingham-claim-mother-is-too-stupid-to-bring-up-child.html

http://feministmums.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/no-mother-is-too-stupid/

http://www.itv.com/News/tonight/episodes/Don-tTakeMyBaby/default.html


http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/politics/Lessons-learned-Baby-K/article-877079-detail/article.html

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