Thursday, December 4, 2014

Foetal alcohol syndrome case dismissed by Court of Appeal

Our previous post mentioned a case being brought by a council in the North West of England because a child was born with foetal alcohol syndrome after the mother drank heavily during pregnancy.

The child is now in care after being born with severe brain damage, and lawyers for the council argued that the mother had poisoned her foetus.

Appeal judges have ruled that the mother had not committed a criminal offence.

Read more here.

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