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Please Give My Baby Back: A tiny baby is found with a bruise on his leg and Robyn s life is ripped apart. Can Maggie help reunite them?
Maggie Hartley
Child abuse, Domestic violence, Social services & welfare, criminology, Social welfare & social services, Adoption & fostering
A new-born baby is found with a bruise on his leg and taken into foster care. Can Maggie Hartley help prove the mother's innocence and reunite them?
'Please don't take him. Let him stay with me. Please don't take my baby.'
When a health visitor notices a bruise on her newborn son's leg, Robyn's world quickly falls apart. Before she knows what's happening, police are called and three-week-old Quinn is being taken to hospital to be examined. As Robyn can't give them any definite explanation as to what's caused the bruise, Quinn is immediately taken into care and given to Maggie to foster while Social Services investigate.
With no idea how long the investigation will take and in total shock and distress that her newborn son has been taken from her, Robyn appeals to Maggie for help. But is Robyn really telling the truth that she hasn't harmed her baby? And if so, can Maggie help her prove her innocence and convince Social Services and the courts to let her bring Quinn home?
A true story of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years.
'Sad but brilliant read' 5* Amazon reader review
Maggie Hartley
Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often can't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed 'unadoptable' because of their behaviour or the extreme trauma that they've been through. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand and taught young mums how to parent their newborn babies.
You can find her on Facebook at /MaggieHartleyAuthor, where she would love to hear from you.
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