An Italian woman visiting the U.K. on a work trip was reportedly sedated and forcibly given a caesarean section last year after social workers obtained a court order saying the mother had suffered a mental breakdown.
A woman was reportedly forcibly sedated and given a caesarean section in the U.K. after social workers obtained a court order saying she had suffered a mental breakdown.
The incident was first reported in Sunday’s edition of The Telegraph which noted that 15 months later the child is still in the care of social services, despite the mother’s claims that she has made a full recovery.
“I have never heard of anything like this in all my 40 years in the job,” the woman’s British lawyer, Brendan Fleming, told The Telegraph.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...at-reportedly-happened-next-is-unprecedented/
A woman was reportedly forcibly sedated and given a caesarean section in the U.K. after social workers obtained a court order saying she had suffered a mental breakdown.
The incident was first reported in Sunday’s edition of The Telegraph which noted that 15 months later the child is still in the care of social services, despite the mother’s claims that she has made a full recovery.
“I have never heard of anything like this in all my 40 years in the job,” the woman’s British lawyer, Brendan Fleming, told The Telegraph.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...at-reportedly-happened-next-is-unprecedented/
