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Following the intervention of attorneys from the Ordo Iuris Litigation Intervention Center, Magdalena left the hospital together with her newborn daughter, Iga.
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The probation officer supervising the situation of the older daughter, Lena, and the family assistant, independently of one another, assessed that the family’s current situation raises no concerns.
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Since Friday, Iga has been at home together with her mother and her older sister, Lena; the mother has collected Iga’s discharge documentation from the hospital.
The Międzyleski Specialist Hospital in Warsaw refused to discharge a healthy newborn Iga, even though there were no medical indications or court orders justifying the child’s continued hospitalization.
The hospital’s decision to prevent the mother and daughter from leaving the facility was based on media reports from a year earlier concerning the removal of Magdalena’s two children and the death of her son, Oskar. However, the tragedy did not occur while the boy was in his mother’s care, but only after the four-month-old was placed in foster care, where he died four days later.
The children were placed in foster care even though, at the time of the police intervention, their grandmother and great-grandmother were ready to take them in. The family’s situation — both Magdalena’s and that of her two daughters — is now fully resolved. Iga and Lena are together with their mother.
The death of baby Oskar four days after he was unduly taken away from his mother in May last year shocked Poland and remains the subject of a prosecutorial investigation into unintentional causing of death, while the exact circumstances of his death have not yet been clarified. In August last year, the Ordo Iuris Litigation Intervention Center obtained the return of little Lena to her mother.
On Friday afternoon, after drawing the public attention to the Międzylesie hospital’s completely unjustified attitude toward Magdalena and her newborn baby, attorney Magdalena Leszczyńska and attorney Magdalena Majkowska of the Ordo Iuris Litigation Intervention Center personally delivered a written demand to the secretariat of the management of the Międzylesie Specialist Hospital, calling for the immediate discharge of the newborn at the mother’s request. The physician on duty was also informed of the demand. That same day, Magdalena left the hospital together with her daughter. Since returning home, she has provided round-the-clock care for her daughter, personally and without interruption. The discharge took place at the request of Magdalena, who, as the child’s mother, is the minor’s statutory representative and holds full parental authority.
The next day, Saturday, Magdalena received an unannounced visit from the probation officer supervising the situation of her older daughter, four-year-old Lena — the officer found no irregularities. Leszczyńska also took part in the meeting. On Monday morning, also without prior notice, the family assistant visited the home and confirmed the same, positive assessment of the situation. Magdalena, together with her legal representative, attorney Magdalena Majkowska, went to the hospital to collect Iga’s prepared discharge documentation.
Translated using Claude.ai
See also:
- Magdalena Majkowska: State Authorities Bring Tragedy to Polish Families
- Not All Children Spent Christmas Eve with Their Families
- Polish Family’s Struggle Continues as Klaman Daughters Remain in Swedish Foster Care
- Poland’s Ministry of Justice Sees No “Flagrant Violation of the EU’s Legal Order” in the Klaman Family’s Case
- The Strasbourg Tribunal Ruled in Favor of the Father, Whose Children Were Unjustly Taken Away
Source of cover photo: Ordo Iuris Litigation Intervention Center
