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"Fabio Roia, the most senior judge in Milan, said the woman?s treatment by a secret court resembled a horror film ? an unprecedented ?act of extreme violence? that could not have happened in Italy.
The mother, who was suffering from a mental illness, was subjected to a caesarean on the orders of the controversial Court of Protection.
Her ex-husband and her parents, who look after her two other children, insisted they would care for the girl. But, in a second secret hearing, a court ruled that her girl should be removed from her care for adoption by a British family.
Campaigners said it was wrong for a closed-doors court to force a foreign citizen to have an invasive medical procedure and seize her child against her will."
"At a county court hearing in Chelmsford in February this year Judge Roderick Newton heard the mother beg that she should not lose her child for ever.
The judge ruled the girl should be placed for adoption ? even though he accepted that the mother was well, successfully taking medication and had a job.
He said the mother might stop taking her drugs and the family offers were ?not a starter?.
Sir James Munby, who is the President of the Family Division of the High Court, ordered yesterday that further moves towards adoption must be heard before him in the High Court."
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