By Katy Winter PUBLISHED: 14:02 EST, 5 December 2013 | UPDATED: 14:11 EST, 5 December 2013 News of Allesandra Pacchieri, the Italian woman whose baby delivered by caesarean section without her consent and then removed from her by Essex social services has shocked the nation over the past week. Ms Pacchieri was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in the UK while here for a training course. Her lawyers have launched a legal action in a bid to try to get her daughter back and have said the mother-of-three suffers from a relatively minor mental illness, a bipolar condition that can be treated with medication.
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Kelly McWilliams, 37, became depressed after her son died aged 10
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She admitted herself to hospital and made a good recovery
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Two years later she became pregnant
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She was told by a social worker during pregnancy that everything was fine
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Two social workers arrived when Kelly was in labour and told her they were taking her daughter immediately after birth
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Ultimately it took Kelly over four months to get baby Victoria back
Clearly becoming emotional as she recalls the traumatic event Kelly explains: ‘They said to me “@placeholder we’re here because you’re not very well and we are going to be placing your baby into foster care two hours after you give birth”