Brit Mum Whose Baby Was Seized By US Cops Sues For £30m

Brit Mum and Son

SINGLE mum Louise Fielden told yesterday of her hell as US cops accused her of child neglect and took her baby away.

Louise, 42, claims she was called a “limey bitch” and had to spend ten hours cuffed to a handrail.

And she says she was sexually assaulted by a male prisoner while in custody.

Policewoman Louise has now returned to the UK without 15-month old son Samuel, and is fighting to get him back.

Choking back tears, she said: “My fear is they don’t want to hand Samuel back.

“I am a great mummy who decided to give my son a winter holiday, but the US has ruined it. I don’t think there is a legal basis to keep him.

“I just want to hug Samuel and see him again.

“This whole thing has been horrendous.”

Samuel was taken from her while they were on holiday in New York in April last year. 

Just three days into her stay the hotel manager told her staff had taken exception to her parenting skills.

Louise, a Met Police officer, was visited by two social services staff that evening who inspected Samuel and found nothing wrong.

But the following night another social worker turned up — shortly followed by four NYPD cops.

After five hours of interrogation in her hotel room, Louise says the officers arrested her and took away Samuel.

She said: “I hadn’t done anything wrong. I wasn’t panicked but I was exasperated.

“Three officers steamed towards me — I would imagine together they would have been about 50st in weight. Two of them grabbed my arms.

“The third officer swept my legs away from me so I plummeted to the floor.

“I was held face down. They handcuffed me. I didn’t resist them.

“The arresting officer then said, ‘Take that, you limey bitch. You can’t be a police officer — you have no respect. 

“Then they punched me to the lower back.

“They dragged me out of the room and social services took Samuel.

“The cuffs were so tight they were hurting.

Louise was taken to a police station on New York’s 10th Precinct where she claims she was forced to sit for ten hours, cuffed to a handrail.

It was there she says a prisoner sexually assaulted her.

She explained “They do not separate males and females in custody cells. They handcuffed me to a rail outside a cell.

“A Scottish man who was off his head on drugs and alcohol then decided to grope my chest and breasts.

“He was then put in a cell behind me and sexually harassed me for about ten hours.”

Louise was taken to New York’s Central Criminal Court and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, resisting arrest and possession of a substance that she claims was prescription codeine.

She was released on bail, but her passport was confiscated and the city’s Chelsea Highline Hotel threw her out so she had to move into a nearby lodging.

She recalled: “At that point I did not know where my son was. I was on survival mode trying to get through it.”

Louise then endured a nine-month ordeal, during which she was limited to seeing Samuel under supervision for just three days a week between 9am and 1pm.

She discovered that he was being cared for by gay rights activist Sue Sena, dubbed “Queen Hag”, who is close friends with a gay porn star.

Louise said: “I only cry in extreme circumstances and one of those was finding out who the foster carer was. I started having panic attacks.”

She said finding out her son was in a “highly sexualised” environment clashed with her own background as a “religious Christian.”

Eventually, last Monday, the three charges against Louise were dropped after she claims key witnesses failed to show up at court.

She was allowed to return to the UK but there is still a neglect petition pending against her in a New York Court.

Louise revealed she is now suing New York State — including the police department and social services — for £30million for false arrest, excessive force, assault by a police officer, wrongful removal of her son and sexual assault.

She has launched legal proceedings to have Samuel flown back to England and a federal court hearing is due on Friday.

In her legal papers submission she claimed Ms Sena was friends with Will Clark, a porn film star and escort.

She also revealed to The Sun that during her ordeal, prosecutors pressed her to accept a plea bargain charge of disorderly conduct which would have meant 15 days in jail and a fine. She resolutely refused.

It took Louise three years to get pregnant after £20,000 of IVF treatment involving a donor from Holland.

She decided to use her maternity leave to whisk Samuel on holiday — visiting Antigua, New York and Moscow.

But she hit trouble on the second leg of her trip when she was reported for leaving him on his own.

Louise, of Battersea, South West London, insists she was cleaning Samuel’s water bottle with scalding hot water, but was unable to hold him without fear of causing him harm.

She stressed: “I was caring for my son in the most appropriate manner.

“I had to go down three flights of stairs to reception, carrying two beakers, and request to go into the kitchen, while Samuel was upstairs in his crib. 

“Someone would then key in the PIN code to let me in. I would fill beakers up with scalding hot water to sterilise them. I had my hands full when I went upstairs through security fire doors.

“On the hotel’s security footage it took about 30 minutes.”

She added that on two other occasions she took Samuel to the kitchen area.

Once a Japanese lady held the baby and the other time there was no one to help so she placed Samuel in a corner “the furthest point away from the scalding water”.

Louise, who last saw Samuel on Tuesday, said: “I felt I had cared for my son properly, and feel I’ve been unjustly treated.”

She added: “I found out I had been charged because the receptionist stated I had left my child in a hotel lobby and walked off. I can categorically deny that it ever happened.

“America is so defined by its own principles that they were blinkered in what they believe to be the right way to parent a child. They have also lied, which is malicious.”

Yesterday a law department spokesman in the US said: “The City is working with the appropriate international authorities and local agencies in the UK to resolve this matter in the best interests of the child.”

Louise, a PC for 13 years, is now subject of a disciplinary probe by the Met, who confirmed she is “a serving officer attached to Tower Hamlets”.

Sue Sena, who has an apartment in New York, answered the phone to The Sun but hung up and refused to take any more calls