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Today the woman's Italian lawyer said that forcing the woman to have a caesarean was 'absolutely unreasonable'.
Stefano Oliva said the unnamed woman wanted a second chance to prove she could care for the baby girl with the help of her family.
He told Radio 5 Live: 'I do not understand why my client has been forced to have a Caesarean section. It is a very unusual statement to be issued by a judge.
'From my point of view this decision is absolutely unreasonable.'
He said he understood the baby had not yet been formally adopted by anyone, and added: 'There is absolutely no reason why this woman should not be allowed a second chance.'
'This woman has only a minor mental disease, which can be cured with medicine. She is not a woman who is not able to understand what is happening around her.'
His comments came as the 35-year-old mother, who is Italian and suffers from bipolar disorder, said she was suffering 'like an animal' after having her baby taken from her womb without her knowledge or consent.
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Speaking from Rome Mr Oliva said: 'It sounds like something from a Hitler regime. We have been in touch with the Italian Ministry of Justice and we are also pursuing a legal path in England.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517944/Judge-Roderick-Newtons-remarkable-message-baby-girl.html
'Your mother loved you very much and wanted to keep you': Judge's remarkable message to baby girl of woman who was forced to have caesarean
Judge Roderick Newton, who ruled that the baby born to sedated mother be put up for adoption, tells child her mother wanted to keep her
Girl was born to mother, who has bipolar disorder, by court-ordered caesarean 15 months ago
Her Italian mother, 35, says she has suffered 'like an animal' at having child she wants to raise taken away from her
Judge Newton wrote: 'If she reads this judgement I hope she will appreciate that her mother loved her and wished to bring her up'
He explained his decision by describing how the mother had been hospitalised when unwell
Judge also said one of her older children had suffered trauma after witnessing her mother's bipolar episodes
The mother says she is 'suffering like an animal' after treatment in Britain described by her lawyer in Rome as 'like something from a Hitler regime'
Lawyer Stefano Oliva says forcing the woman to deliver baby by caesarean was 'absolutely unreasonable'
By HARRIET ARKELL
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 04:47 EST, 4 December 2013 | UPDATED: 07:35 EST, 4 December 2013
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Preparing to return home to Italy, having successfully passed the course, she had a bipolar episode at the airport and became over-excitable when she thought she had mislaid the passports of her two daughters who were still in Italy. She contacted the police for help.
When they arrived, she was on the phone to her mother, so she handed one of the officers the receiver. The mother explained to the police about her daughter’s mental condition and said she had not been taking the medication and needed to calm her down.
The police then apparently contacted Essex social workers — as they are routinely instructed to do in such cases — and told the woman they were taking her to ‘a hospital to check that your baby is OK’.
On arrival, she was startled to find that it was a psychiatric hospital.
She protested that she wanted to return to her hotel, but was forcibly restrained, sectioned under the Mental Health Act and told she must remain in the psychiatric hospital.
What happened next, however, was truly astounding.
Having been held there for five weeks, pleading many times to be given permission to return to Italy, she was told one morning that she would not be allowed breakfast.
They would not explain why, and, again, she protested. She was then strapped down and drugged into a state of unconsciousness.
Waking up hours later, she found she was in a different hospital, and that while she had been unconscious, her baby had been removed by Caesarean section and handed over to social workers.
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But there is now abundant evidence (and the Mail has played a valiant part in bringing this to light) that many thousands a year are being removed from their parents for no good reason at all.
Secondly, there is the readiness of the police to collaborate unquestioningly with the social workers — as in this case, where they were even prepared to tell the mother a lie to trick her into entering the psychiatric hospital.
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If the story of what was done to her serves any useful purpose, it will be to bring home more forcefully than ever just how rotten this system has become and what terrible acts of inhumanity it too often wreaks on those children and parents who have become its helpless victims.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517144/Explain-snatched-baby-girl-birth-Judges-order-social-workers-forced-caesarean.html
Explain why you snatched baby girl at birth: Judge's order to social workers behind forced caesarean
Sir James Munby has demanded answers in extraordinary case
The child was taken from the 35-year-old Italian in forced caesarean
The case shines light on murky secrecy of Court of Protection
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 18:20 EST, 2 December 2013 | UPDATED: 20:42 EST, 2 December 2013
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