Bizarre!


"After the birth, her mother was quickly discharged from hospital and a year ago her daughter was placed with another Muslim couple.

Meanwhile the baby’s father claimed that he had been told the baby had died, although the mother denied this, and only after contacting police and hospitals did he find her birth certificate.

When the father asked for information about the baby and a residence order, social services wanted him to be kept in the dark about the adoption proceedings while a family judge feared he would tell the mother’s family about the birth.

“Enquiries of the police showed that [the baby’s grandmother] had told them that if [its grandfather] found out about the child, he would consider himself honour bound to kill the child, [its mother], [the grandmother] herself and her other children.”

The father was eventually told that the baby was “alive and well and had been placed for adoption” but an order was made banning him from contacting the infant or her family."