REMOVED: The baby was taken away from its mother after she was forced to undergo a Cesarean [GETTY]
The little girl was immediately taken into care because the mum had suffered a mental breakdown.
Now an MP has called for answers as the mother launches a court fight to get her child back.
The woman, who is Italian, was in the UK for a training course when she suffered a panic attack.
Her family said she had not taken her bipolar medicine correctly.
She was taken to a psychiatric facility and sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Essex social workers gained a court order to allow doctors to perform a C-section.
They took the tot away and later won permission for the baby, now 15 months old, to be adopted.
Lib Dem MP John Hemming, 53, said he could not understand why the woman had not been sent home to Italy for treatment.
NONSENSE: MP John Hemming spoke out against the women not being sent back to Italy for psychiatric treatment [PETER CORNS]
He said: “Being in a psychiatric institution when you are without your medication in a foreign country is not a good experience to go through.”
The woman said she has made a full recovery, but social services were still refusing to reunite her with her daughter.
Her lawyers slammed the High Court’s ruling, saying her family knew nothing about the case and that the Italian social services should have been told.
A spokesman at Essex County Council said last night: “We never comment on individual cases that are still ongoing. It’s for the best interests of the child.”
Shami Chakrabarti, of human rights group Liberty, said: “Forced surgery and separation of mum and infant is the stuff of nightmares.”
REMOVED: The baby was taken away from its mother after she was forced to undergo a Cesarean [GETTY]
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