September 22nd, 2009 by Lianne

In 2007 a mother of a baby boy was wrongly accused of causing her child harm and her son was taken away because of the apparent child abuse.

In a response to this, the mother decided to have an abortion as she wouldn’t be able to cope if a second child was taken away from the family. It was assumed that because the baby had an injury to the brain, it should be taken away, however, it was later revealed that the child instead had the injury during birth.

The child was returned to its mother after a year of investigation.