STORY: 'Expert' doctor took away my baby because I wanted to be a good mother, by Katherine Faulkner, published in the Daily Mail on April 6, 2012.
GIST: "A woman has told how her baby was taken into care after controversial psychiatrist Dr George Hibbert said she was trying too hard to be ‘the perfect mother’. The leading doctor is already facing claims he deliberately misdiagnosed parents with mental disorders to have their children removed. In a damning report, he described the woman’s constant efforts to be a good mother as ‘over the top’. Incredibly, he even claimed the healthy 24-year-old, who can be named only as Miss B, might be better off living ‘in the structured formality of institutional life’ so she could learn to be less obsessed with pleasing others. As a result of Dr Hibbert’s report, for which he was paid thousands by social services, the woman’s baby was removed from her and placed with a foster family.........Presenting Dr Hibbert’s report as evidence, social services had told a court that the mother’s ‘attempts to present as a perfect mother for the perfect child’ had made her too ‘stressed’ to care for her daughter properly. In 2008, Miss B won back custody of her daughter after a two-year battle to disprove what Dr Hibbert had written. ‘I can’t describe the relief I felt when I got her back,’ Miss B said. ‘She is my whole world. When she was taken away, it was like my heart was being ripped out.’"
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE:
I am monitoring this case. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments.
The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
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http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html
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