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Mar 22, 2011

Baby girl kept away from mother for five years after she refused to sign C-section consent form

 

Baby girl kept away from mother for five years after she refused to sign C-section consent form

By RICHARD HARTLEY-PARKINSON
Last updated at 3:20 PM on 16th March 2011

The woman has been separated from her baby for nearly five years

The woman has been separated from her baby for nearly five years

A baby girl has been kept away from her mother for almost five years after she refused to sign a form consenting to a Caesarean section - even though she did not end up needing to have the operation.

The extraordinary case began after staff at a New Jersey hospital claimed that refusal to give permission for the procedure amounted to child abuse.

The agonising decision triggered a protracted legal battle which has led to the mother being separated from her child for five years.

The woman, known only as VM, launched an appeal after authorities took her baby away from her immediately after the birth in 2006 at St Barnabas Hospital in New Jersey.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366791/Baby-girl-kept-away-mother-5-years-refusing-sign-C-section-form.html#ixzz1HJf4N9H3


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