Premature baby “dead” in the Netherlands –
but 26 years later she is alive and well and working in Australia

 A UK mother has described how her premature baby was left to die by doctors in the Netherlands. A recent publication in the Dutch Journal of Medicine, drawing attention to the illegal euthanasia of newborns in the country, prompted Linda Baldwin to reveal how, 26 years ago, Linda and her husband were falsely informed that their premature baby, Claire, was dead. Claire’s father found her in a dirty laundry room in a kidney dish and demanded that she be placed in an incubator, in spite of resistance and ridicule from nurses. Claire recovered and now works in the Body Shop in Carmarthen. [This Is South Wales, 17 February]

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RARTL Updated February, 2005