I want my baby back
Nine-month ordeal of WPC who says officials kidnapped her son in US and handed him to foster mum called Queen Hag
A BRITISH policewoman is locked in an extraordinary legal battle with the Us authorities after her baby was seized and handed to a foster carer known as ‘Queen Hag’.
Louise Fielden claims her 14-month-old son samuel is being ‘held hostage and kidnapped in a foreign country’ after she was accused of leaving him unattended in a New York hotel and arrested last April.
The Metropolitan Police officer denied the claims but her son was taken into care and is currently being fostered by susan sena, according to legal papers accusing the City of New York of child abduction.
Miss sena is co-founder of a pro-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activist group, SWISH, and was said in court papers to have enjoyed a birthday celebration at a club where ‘porno bingo’ was played.
In explosive court papers Miss Fielden, who has 13 years’ unblemished service with the Met, said: ‘As a devout member of the Church of England my family values are totally on the other side of the spectrum as SWISH’s [single Women in support of Homos] and I do not wish for my son to be cared for by any member of that organisation, let alone its president.’
she added: ‘It is mind-boggling that my son samuel’s foster mother… is a participant in “Porno Bingo”, where a gay porn star is a guest star.’
Miss Fielden, 42, from Tottenham, North London, flew back to the UK this week after all criminal charges were finally dropped and her passport returned. But she still faces neglect
‘A participant in porno bingo’
charges and social workers have refused to let her son return to Britain.
The legal papers lodged at Brooklyn Federal Court reveal the saga began on January 10 last year when Miss Fielden – who conceived via an anonymous sperm donor from the Netherlands – and samuel, then five months old, flew to Antigua for a three-month break.
In the court papers she adds: ‘ On April 10, 2015, samuel and I left Antigua for New York City where I was going to do some shopping for clothes and other things for samuel.’
They checked into the budget Chelsea Highline Hotel in Manhattan for a two-week stay before returning to the UK.
But after staff claimed Miss Fielden left samuel unattended in her room and also abandoned him in the hotel lobby for more than an hour, police arrested Miss Fielden on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest.
samuel was placed in the care of New York City Administration for Children’s services and later handed to foster carers, while his mother remained in Manhattan on maternity leave.
In the petition for the return of her child, she said she had simply left him in his bed while she popped down three flights of stairs to sterilise his bottles in the hotel kitchen, and that when she returned he was ‘still asleep and totally unharmed’.
The document states the other incident involved leaving him on the floor in the dining area ‘while she was one foot away staring at him while eating her breakfast’.
The PC goes on to claim her son was placed with a foster mother, ‘Angelina’, who left him ‘underfed and starving’, before he was handed to Miss sena, 43. Miss Fielden was allowed to visit three days a week but claimed many visits were ‘unilaterally cancelled by the foster mothers’.
On Tuesday Miss Fielden served papers in New York seeking the return of her son and citing The Hague Convention on international child abduction. A hearing to determine the appropriate care plan for a child will take place next week.
Last night Miss Fielden was unavailable for comment. Miss sena refused to comment. The New York Law Department said the city was working with UK authorities ‘to resolve this matter in the best interests of the child’. The Metropolitan Police declined to comment. The owners of the Chelsea Highline Hotel could not be contacted.