Woman experienced 'torture' when social workers and gardaí forcibly removed her day-old child, court hears

Social workers also referred to the mother having a strong sense of spirituality, having made the sign of the cross on the children’s heads with nail varnish and saying the newborn was the “third Immaculate Conception baby God has given her”.

A mother said she experienced “torture” when social workers and gardai entered her hospital room “like she was the worst person” and forcibly removed her newborn child, the High Court has heard.

Alternatives to that removal were not actually considered, she claims.