Scandal of the Stolen Children (Cont.) ; When Louise's Baby Fell Ill, a Doctor Diagnosed Cancer.Then Social Workers Blamed Child Abuse and - in Secret Court Hearings - Seized All Her Children. Only Now, Thanks to an Enlightened Judge, Can This Horrifying Story Be Told . .

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ONE November afternoon at just after two o'clock, Louise Mason stood in a hospital ward and kissed her 11-week-old baby goodbye. She had dressed the little girl with care, packing a suitcase of tiny clothes and soft toys.

Inside, she had placed a handwritten letter to the foster parents who would look after her in the future.

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Scandal of the Stolen Children (Cont.) ; When Louise's Baby Fell Ill, a Doctor Diagnosed Cancer.Then Social Workers Blamed Child Abuse and - in Secret Court Hearings - Seized All Her Children. Only Now, Thanks to an Enlightened Judge, Can This Horrifying Story Be Told . .

On that day five years ago, Louise felt as though her heart would burst.

'I wrote down everything about my daughter,' she told me this week. 'I said she had colicky attacks at six in the evening, and should be rocked until she slept. I said she needed to be coaxed to take her milk.' After writing that sad note, the young mother from Northampton was forced to hand over the baby girl to social workers, who carried her off to her new home.

Louise, 32, then returned to her house, with its empty cot, in the seaside city of Derry, family justice system in this case are Northern Ireland. It ...

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