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Baby Taken Over Speeding Fine
Marija Andric
Austrian social workers have taken this baby away from his teenage mother – because the toddler's grandmother hasn't paid a speeding fine.
The social-workers swooped to seize one-year-old Jonas Leitner from his teenage mother Ann-Kathrin, claiming that it was because the grandmother of the boy had not paid an 800 pound speeding ticket. That meant the gran risked going to jail for a short period and would be unable to help her daughter with baby sitting
They told Ann-Kathrin, aged 18, they did not believe that she would be able to cope without her mother Heidi, 50, and as a result took the boy into care.
But even though Gran Heidi quickly paid the fine the boy was not returned and has now been away from his mother for two months.
Ann-Kathrin said: "When they took him into care we rushed to borrow the money from family and friends and paid off the fine. But they didn't bring him back.
"It's now been seven weeks and apparently he's already with the second foster family. I don't know why they changed from the first family."
Social workers in Wels in the province of Upper Austria have refused to discuss the case. Spokesman Josef Gruber said the decision had not been taken lightly and that they were unable to comment on individual cases. The young mother has now got a lawyer, Ronald Gabl, who has made a request at court for the child to be handed back.
He said: "Quite apart from the fact that the child was taken away because of the traffic offence,the question is how did social workers find out about the speeding ticket and was that a breach of data protection laws."
Ann-Kathrin, who lives with the boy's father, Andreas, said they would have been able to manage even if her mother had gone to jail overt the unpaid ticket.
Gran Heidi said: "Of course a young mother needs support but they were managing fine. The youngster even has his own room.
"When I realised it was a problem the fine was paid within two hours but it didn’t seem to make any difference.
"Now we're only allowed to see him once a week for an hour. The only exception was on his birthday on 26 January and we were allowed an extra hour.
"It has had a devastating effect on my daughter- she missed her baby's first Christmas and his first tooth.
"Apparently he is also now walking and we missed that as well. These memories can't be replaced."
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