The mother of baby Benjamin was born in Slovakia but settled
in England. However, babies born to parents from the European Economic Area can
only receive British citizenship if at least one parent has lived in the UK
continuously for five years prior.
So when Benjamin’s
mother decided she no longer wanted to raise her son – who was born in
Liverpool – the teething six-month-old was forced to endure a tearful
two-and-a-half hour flight back to Bratislava, accompanied by two social
workers . Posing for a selfie, this is the party-loving
mother whose six-month-old baby was taken by
social services and sent back to Slovakia.
Bibiana
Stranska, 24, had moved to Liverpool from her sleepy home town near the capital
Bratislava with the promise of a secure job and a party lifestyle.She became
pregnant, though it is understood she decided not to tell her parents, choosing
instead to go through the birth on her own in Britain. But she told social
services she would be unable to care for the child even before giving birth to
a healthy boy in Liverpool last November.
Since 2006 babies born to parents from the
European Economic Area get British citizenship only if at least one parent has
lived in the UK continuously for five years prior to the birth.
Under new
guidelines, judges and social workers have been warned not to interfere when it
comes to the welfare of foreign children.
So, as
Benjamin is a Slovakian citizen, arrangements were made by Sefton council for
him to be taken into care by the authorities in the Eastern European state. Accompanied
by two British social workers, he was put on a plane from Liverpool to
Bratislava, where he was met by child welfare workers.
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