The relevant authorities argued in court that her pathological lying posed a developmental risk to her child. The court agreed, and the child’s father was given sole custody.
He believed the family needed support and not to have Samantha cut out of her child’s life. He acknowledged there were mental health issues at play but said the reaction was an "overreach" by social services.
Quote: Social services brought in an expert witness who examined Sam and said she suffered from ‘pseudologia fantastica' the formal term for pathological lying - Producer Ronan Kelly
Missing Person:
After Samantha’s child was removed from her care she kept a mammoth secret - something nobody knew, not even her partner…
Samantha was pregnant again, for a third time. She had already lost two children, so this time, she decided to take drastic action…
She was reported missing to the West Mercia police on the 28th of September, 2013. The investigators soon tracked Samantha to Ireland; they believed she had moved between Dublin and Clane in Kildare. And they were right.
She fled to Ireland to have her third baby, but shortly after the birth Irish social services were contacted over concerns for the child’s welfare. An Irish Family Law court directed that the child be removed from Samantha’s care and returned to its father in the UK.
By 2014, Samantha had given birth three times (that we know of), and yet she was alone.
After this, she moved around Ireland, finding ways to take care of other people’s children while omitting the fact that she had a criminal conviction and had been found unfit to take care of her own offspring.
Quote: Sam has moved around this country positioning herself to take care of other peoples’ children. All the time hiding from them the fact that twice, she’d been found unfit to care for her own children - Justine Stafford
The Aftermath:
After the surrogacy scam the plight of the childless couple was picked up by a wealthy businessman who heard about the court case.
He paid for another round of IVF, and they gave birth to a baby girl.
Please hold onto this pocket of good news as we move forward with the podcast…
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