A mother is taking her fight to the European Court of Human Rights after she was forbidden from seeing her three-year-old daughter because she is not “clever enough” to look after her.
The woman has been told by a family court that her daughter will be placed with adoptive parents within the next three months, and she will then be barred from further contact.
The adoption is going ahead despite the declaration by a psychiatrist that the woman has no learning difficulties and “good literacy and numeracy and her general intellectual abilities appear to be within the normal range”.
Her daughter was born prematurely and officials felt she lacked the intelligence to cope with her daughter's complex medical needs. Her daughter was released from hospital into care and is currently with a foster family. Her health has now improved to the point where she needs little or no day-to-day medical care.
The mother has now lodged an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights which has the power to stop the child being given to another family. She has also applied for judicial review of the adoption order.
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