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Saturday, November 01, 2008

'You can't see your son - but can he have one of your organs?': how social workers left one man with a terrible moral dilemma

Note: You know, I'm going on two years doing this blog, and this has seriously got to be one of the most screwed up stories I've ever read regarding this issue.

'You can't see your son - but can he have one of your organs?': how social workers left one man with a terrible moral dilemma

The letter from Hampshire Social Services was as brief as it was bewildering. ‘Please ring me on the above number,’ it said. ‘I have some information that might be of interest to you.’ This was quite an understatement, as Michael Shergold soon found.

A quietly spoken father of three, he finds that his life rarely gets more exciting than his weekly game of golf. But when he called the social workers as requested, he was confronted with a series of astonishing facts.

They said he was the father of another child - a five-year-old son from a previous, short-lived relationship. A former girlfriend, unable to cope with the demands of motherhood, had handed the boy over to foster parents.

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