Woman who claims she was forced to give up her baby for adoption launches High Court action

Woman whose baby was allegedly removed from her while she was in a mother and baby home in 1980, claims it has had lifelong adverse effects and she allegedly suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder

The woman, who is now a pensioner, has brought proceedings against her former employer which is a financial institution, the State, the HSE, Tusla, a nominee for a religious order which ran the mother and baby home and the Adoption Authority of Ireland.

A woman who claims she was forced to give up her child for adoption as an unmarried mother in a mother and baby home has launched a High Court action.

The alleged removal of her baby from her in 1980, it is claimed, has had lifelong adverse effects on the woman and she allegedly suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder and she struggles on a day-to-day basis.