🚨 IMPORTANT UPDATE! 🚨 on "BABY CASEY" AND HER MOTHER Please click on post to read how and why the system takes children for profit rather than helping mothers. I've snipped out excerpts for those who claim she is a "crack rat" and "had too many sperm donors" rather than believe Tusla is commodifying children and feeding them into a system that uses them as revenue! Update below...
𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐲
This morning, Tusla social workers arrived on the maternity ward where the mother we wrote about yesterday is admitted.
The mother was brought into a side room where they served papers ordering her to appear in court on Friday morning for a hearing to take her newborn into Care.
Not one of the social workers asked her how she was feeling after giving birth. They simply asked how the delivery went and how the baby is doing.
A birth should be a time of joy and celebration. Instead, within 30 hours of giving birth, this mother has been subjected to what she believes to be harassment and intimidation by those who should, in her opinion be offering her comfort, support and reassurance that everything possible will be done to keep her and her baby together .
She is breastfeeding her baby and instead of contentment, she is living in constant fear that her baby will be taken from her on Friday.
We in the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice have seen this pattern too many times before.
The decision to remove this baby was made long before the birth. Based on our observations over the last seven years, on Friday morning the mother will arrive at court alone and without legal representation.
A solicitor will be assigned at the last minute so that the system can claim she was represented. This solicitor will play the game, knowing that challenging Tusla means losing future contracts. He will not follow her instructions and if she interjects, she wouldn’t be viewed as petulant and this will be used against her as another #weapon to take her baby.
The mother’s “crime” is that she grew up in the Care system and is now homeless. She has no addiction issues, no history of harm, and no one to advocate for her inside the courtroom.
We have seen this again and again. Mothers who were once in Care find that the same social workers who removed them as children now appear in their maternity wards to take their babies. The system is built to sustain itself, not to support families. It is driven by money, contracts, and institutional self-preservation.
A mother and baby in crisis should receive support, not surveillance. The right intervention here would be a placement in one of the specialised mother and baby homes that help mothers and infants stay together. Such homes exist and have proven successful in preventing forced mother and newborn separation.
Yet instead, the system continues to feed itself. Tusla must justify its €1.2 billion budget. Private for-profit providers rely on a steady supply of children to keep their operations running. Thousands of professionals have a stake in keeping things just as they are — lawyers, barristers, social workers, GALs, experts, and administrators.
The public often asks why a baby is taken. In this case the answer is painfully simple. The mother is homeless. She is poor. And she was once a child in care.
Generations of Irish mothers and grandmothers have seen their babies taken. The names of the institutions may have changed, but the cruelty remains the same.
The Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice calls on Tusla CEO Kate Duggan to intervene personally. She will have no difficulty in finding out which case this is. She has the power to direct that this mother and baby be placed together in a supportive setting, not separated in the name of protection.
This is Ireland in November 2025. A mother who gave birth less than two days ago is now preparing to walk into court alone to fight for her baby’s right to remain with her.
The buck stops with @KateDuggan8
*Casey is a pseudonym to protect the identity of the baby