Cash for Tots Scandal Rocks Britain

There is one such couple that has had to endure the harrowing experience of having their daughter snatched from them two days after her birth. As of today, the couple have not been formally charged with nor found guilty of any abuse to their daughter. The couple are taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights, but that was little consolation when they found their daughter's photograph in a paper and saw that she was being put up for adoption.

How could such a thing happen? In this particular case, the husband had been married previously when his son suffered a fall. A social worker investigated the fall and eventually found that he and his first wife were not to blame and no charges were made. He and his previous wife retained custody of their child and his ex-wife has custody of the child to this day. But things were not to run so smoothly for him and his second wife.

When the wife was 8 months pregnant, she and her husband were asked to attend a pre-birth meeting. According to the couple, nothing seemed amiss. But two days after bringing their daughter home from the hospital, social workers visited.

According to the couple, the social workers waltzed right inside their home and took the girl from her cot and exited their house. Why? The only theory is that social workers worried that the husband might harm his child in light of what had happened with his first child and previous wife, even though there was no actual evidence of abuse and the case had been dismissed. There wasn't, however, the cash for tots incentive to councils happening then either. In this particular case, the couple was an easy target for a council that was greedy and desperately in need of money. There was no crime committed, nor did there have to be for the Council to take the couple's child away from them.

The couple has been allowed to visit their daughter at her foster home, and her father has even launched a website dedicated to their daughter. After such a harrowing ordeal, the couple understandably wanted to inform the public of what had happened. They were instead told by social workers that if they defied authority and spoke to the press or, indeed, told anybody of what was happening, they could be held in contempt of court and might end up in prison. I cannot imagine such a thing ever happening in America.

In the past two years, this Council has found 29 children to place for adoption. But what criteria are they using? Are these all mothers that are willingly putting their children up for adoption or are these couples who have had their child illegally removed from them for no specified reason?