[El Gato]

It’s amazing how quickly people want to believe the worse about the government when no where in the article did it say they took the baby away from the mother. In fact it clearly stated the mother was also in state custody.

But while it doesn't say that the baby was separated from the mother, it doesn't say it wasn't either. It certainly can be read to imply that the baby was taken.

[najida]

The only times I’ve known of a baby being taken from a mother was when the mother was either so high on crack the baby was born into withdrawls OR she was so mentally ill that she was stated she wanted to stab it to death when it was born (and she said this repeatedly in front of me and other witnesses).

So no, taking babies is pretty rare.