This crap happens here, folks. A friend of mine went through it in the ‘80s. Her husband had left her and her 14-yr-old son was running away and getting snared by Child Protective Services on a regular basis. She had no drug or alcohol problems, no criminal record, and her baby was not born out of wedlock. Yet before she ever laid eyes on the newborn, the hospital had conferred with social services (because of the boy, who was in foster care) and the hospital started proceedings to take the baby from her. According to the paperwork she showed me, the reason was “child abuse.” Of a child she had delivered just hours before, and never seen. In the fine print it said the doctors had reason to believe she would abuse the child. No reason was given. No psychiatric exam was ever done. She had absolutely no history of any criminal behavior or abuse, by her or to her. Just a shiftless husband and a son determined to find his dad.
It took a team of lawyers to get the hospital to back off. They wanted to discharge her and keep the baby. To this day I suspect they had financial motives to take a healthy newborn from an innocent mother. (She was destitute, I had paid all her expenses, but they seemed surprised and dismayed when the pricey lawyers entered the picture, like they had expected her to be defenseless.)
There’s a market for healthy babies. The scum who engage in this trade, generally do not call themselves scum. They present themselves as humanitarians, selfless and pure of heart.
The exact opposite of what they are. People like that belong in prison.