Eight-month-old baby whose parents refused to give a first name should be put up for adoption, judge rules
‘A baby girl who has never had a name should be put up for adoption by a new family, a judge has ruled.
The eight-month-old’s parents refused to give her a first name and she is known only by the surname in which social workers have registered her.
She has remained without a first name while the family courts considered her fate and in the ruling made public yesterday Her Honour Judge Sarah Lynch called her only ‘the child’.
A baby girl who has never had a name should be put up for adoption by a new family, a judge has ruled
The girl’s parents said they would not give their child a name or register her birth because according to their beliefs, which they said included the Bible and human rights law, her life is private and no-one else has a right to know about their family or interfere with their lives.’
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