{"id":6672,"date":"2013-12-05T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:51:36","slug":"baby-forcibly-extracted-womb-nightmare-visit-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/baby-forcibly-extracted-womb-nightmare-visit-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Forcibly Extracted from Womb During Nightmare Visit to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robin Phillips<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Alessandra<\/a>
Alessandra Pacchieri is being represented by Stefano Oliva, who has described the actions of the British authorities as “sheer brutality.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Italian mother is working to get her baby back following a forced Caesarean section during a visit to Britain last year.<\/p>\n

The mother of two was sedated and forcibly operated upon after Essex Social Services deemed she was unfit to be a mother.<\/p>\n

The Italian Government has expressed outrage<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The nightmarish series of events began last June when Alessandra Pacchieri travelled from her native Italy to Essex for a two-week training course with Ryanair at Stansted Airport in Essex.<\/p>\n

Having had a history of \u2018manic episodes\u2019, Alessandra was on medication. Concerned that her drugs might harm her unborn baby, Alessandra stopped taking them and had a panic attack as a result. During her panic attack Alessandra phoned the police.<\/p>\n

TRICKED BY THE POLICE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Upon arrival at her hotel room, the police made telephone contact with Alessandra\u2019s mother, who informed them about her daughter\u2019s condition and explained that Alessandra needed to take her medication.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said they wanted to take me to hospital to check my baby was OK\u201d Alessandra explained. \u201cI agreed to go with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until they arrived at the \u2018hospital\u2019 that Alessandra realized that she\u2019d been tricked. To her horror, she found herself locked in a psychiatric unit where she was held against her will. Alessandra was prevented from returning either to the hotel or to her native Italy.<\/p>\n

Months went by, during which time Alessandra was still banned from returning to her family in Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI begged the doctors to let me go back to my country\u201d Alessandra recalls. \u201cI said I wanted to go to court to get it sorted out.\u201d<\/p>\n

FORCED CAESAREAN<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By now Alessandra was nearing the end of her pregnancy. On Friday, 24th August 2012, four days before her due date, Alessandra went to prepare her breakfast as she had done every other morning. But this time she found the hospital kitchen locked. Officials informed her that she couldn\u2019t have breakfast because she would be having a C-section.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was crying. I could feel my baby kicking inside me. I begged them not to do the caesarean. The due date was four days later and there was no reason for me to have such an invasive operation with anaesthetic. I wanted a natural birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alessandra\u2019s protests were ignored. To her horror, she found herself strapped down by a team of five nurses and forcibly sedated.<\/p>\n

A few hours later Alessandra woke up to find that she was no longer pregnant. While asleep her child\u2014a baby girl\u2014had been forcibly extracted from the womb and handed over to Essex social services. Alessandra was allowed to hold her baby intermittently for the first few days although she was commanded not to breast feed. On the third day, she was informed that the baby was being completely removed.<\/p>\n

Little did Alessandra realize that this forced Caesarean had been carefully planned and authorized by the secret courts. A transcript from the hearing in which Mr Justice Mostyn approved the procedure, reveals the judge telling the court: \u201cShe should not know about this order before she is taken and goes to hospital.\u201d The judge authorised the use of \u201creasonable and proportionate force\u201d if needed.<\/p>\n

FORCED ADOPTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The forced Caesarean was just the beginning of Alessandra\u2019s British nightmare.<\/p>\n

Throughout the following autumn Alessandra was allowed access to her daughter for half an hour once a week. In two family court hearings in Chelmsford, Alessandra pleaded to have her child returned to her and to be allowed to go home with her baby to Italy, but to no avail. The child had already been earmarked for adoption.<\/p>\n

In October 2012, social services obtained formal permission to put Alessandra\u2019s daughter up for adoption. Only then was Alessandra able to return to Italy.<\/p>\n

Back in Italy Alessandra received treatment for her condition. Having completely recovered, she now maintains a home and holds down a job. Yet the authorities in England will not allow her to see her child.<\/p>\n

Alessandra returned to Britain earlier this year for a hearing at Chelmsford County Court. While Judge Roderick Newton criticized the local authority for going against the advice of the doctors who had urged the baby to be left with her mother at the hospital, he did not reverse the decision.<\/p>\n

In a desperate attempt to keep her daughter within the family, Alessandra has requested that her baby be allowed to go and live with her husband\u2019s sister, who has been recognized as a very capable mother. However, Essex Social Services have refused to even consider this option on the grounds that the baby\u2019s aunt has no \u201cblood\u201d tie to the baby even though she is technically kin. In the minds of Essex social services, placing a baby with a complete stranger is preferable to letting her live with kin.<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL CONTROVERSY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

These events have created international controversy this week, and threaten to strain relations between Italy and the UK. An eminent judge in Milan has declared that a forced caesarean under sedation is an act of extreme violence.
\n\u201cYour family courts and your social workers invaded my body and stole my baby\u201d, Alessandra told the UK press. \u201cI believe that the British authorities planned to adopt my daughter from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething very unfair has been done to me. I am fighting to get my daughter back and I never want another innocent mother in your country to suffer as I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018PURE BRUTALITY\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Melita\u2019s lawyer, Stefano Oliva, commented that these events were \u201cunprecedented\u201d and added that he was amazed to see this happening in a European country. \u201cI’ve been a lawyer for 20 years,\u201d he said. \u201cI’ve never seen something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJudges can have a different opinion than you, or not look at the papers correctly, but in the particular case I’ve seen pure brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch an invasive treatment of my client, forcing birth from her – I can’t think that any Italian judge would have done it under any circumstance.”<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has proved to the Italian social services that she is trustworthy\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Oliva went on to compare the case to events that occurred under Hitler or in North Korea. \u201cTo snatch children from their own family has happened in history, under other regimes in which there was no democracy – think of the Hitler Youth or the gathering of children in North Korea.<\/p>\n

“You can’t think of this happening in a Western European country, a European Union country.”<\/p>\n

“She’s a mother. And like all mothers, she wants to be with her daughter. She realises that she has problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

“She’s now getting treatment, she’s doing better, she has a job. She has proved to the Italian social services that she is trustworthy.”<\/p>\n

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