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Court of Violation

“Your family courts and your social workers invaded my body and stole my baby,” said Alessandra Pacchieri. While pregnant, Pacchieri, 33, went to Britain for training as a flight attendant; she was sent home to Italy without her child. Pacchieri had a panic attack and was hospitalized against her will. Then the Court of Protection ordered that her baby be removed from her body — and directed that she not be warned before the procedure that authorities were seeking control of the child. Pacchieri had been deemed mentally unfit and “represented” by a lawyer who hadn’t even met her. Later, even after finding Pacchieri eloquent in her own behalf, a judge ordered the baby placed for adoption. (AC/London Telegraph) ...The psychiatric state in action.
Original Publication Date: 08 December 2013
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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