Mother with learning difficulties has child taken into care

Added on Friday 29 Jan 2010

Mother 'not clever enough to raise child' has baby snatched by social workers after running away to Ireland to give birth  - A couple who fled to Ireland after social workers threatened to remove their baby at birth have had the newborn snatched after all. Kerry Robertson, 17, who has mild learning difficulties, and Mark McDougall, 25, went on the run after British social services said she was not clever enough to raise a child. 

Source:  The Daily Mail