http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1117544,00.html

Child in care as mother arrested

Martin Wainwright
Wednesday January 7, 2004
The Guardian

A month-old baby has been taken into local council care after the arrest of her
mother following claims that three separate deals to buy the child were made by
childless British couples using a US website.
Police have bailed the 33-year-old woman from Keighley, West Yorkshire, after
tracking her to a Southampton hospital.

Maternity units across the country were contacted when the woman, who is
alleged to have advertised herself as a surrogate mother on the web, failed to
keep a hospital appointment in Bradford.

She was arrested after giving birth at the Princess Anne hospital in
Southampton. The newborn girl is now being fostered, while care proceedings
involving a second child are under way.

West Yorkshire police said the woman was being questioned in connection with
offences under the Adoption Act.

Posted for Educational Purposes only.

Kathy
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

> Maternity units across the country were contacted when the woman, who is alleged to have advertised herself as a surrogate mother on the web, failed to keep a hospital appointment in Bradford. She was arrested after giving birth at the Princess Anne hospital in Southampton. The newborn girl is now being fostered, while care proceedings involving a second child are under way.


Since when are "Maternity units across the country" contacted when a
mother to be in a potential adoption fails to keep an appointment with
her doctor? Afraid she'd try to run off with her baby perhaps?

"Melinda Walmsley" <mhjtw@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eb5515c9.0401071946.423e56b9@posting.google.c om... Maternity units across the country were contacted when the woman, who is alleged to have advertised herself as a surrogate mother on the web,
failed to keep a hospital appointment in Bradford. She was arrested after giving birth at the Princess Anne hospital in Southampton. The newborn girl is now being fostered, while care
proceedings involving a second child are under way. Since when are "Maternity units across the country" contacted when a mother to be in a potential adoption fails to keep an appointment with her doctor? Afraid she'd try to run off with her baby perhaps?

Surrogates are nut cases. They and their parters in crime should be thrown
in jail.

Marley