Couple become Britain’s oldest new parents — only to have baby taken into care, stock image
The 63-year-old mum and her partner, 65, are "devastated" after bosses stepped in and took the child from them.
The couple's age is thought to be a factor in fears over the one-year-old's well-being. A source said: "They are devastated.
Social services have been dealing with them since last year and told them to make improvements in how the child was being looked after.
"They then decided that the called-for improvements had not happened and took the child into care."
The couple from the north of England had the baby using a surrogate mother in her 30s. She is believed to have been impregnated using the 65-year-old's sperm and a donor egg.
The adoptive parents spent more than £100,000 on the procedure and used a clinic abroad as most in the UK would not deal with a couple their age.
The child's British birth mother and her husband were named on the birth certificate, but they signed a parental order letting the older couple adopt.
Social services closely monitored the situation and, after the concerns were raised, the child was taken away and is thought to be in foster care.
The adoptive parents have failed in one bid to regain custody but are still fighting. They are thought to be allowed some contact in monitored visits.
The source said: "This is a very unusual situation. Although it is upsetting for all, social workers have done what they think is best for the child."
The adoptive mother refused to comment, as did the couple's local council.
meanwhile in a government funded institution or children's home the sexual abuse continues unchallenged, as it has for at least fifty years. Why do I care? Because the courts protected the abuser who abused me in a private school. My parents paid huge fees to the school and the courts thought they should protect the reputation of the school over the welfare of the victims.
wickedness incarnate. Do not believe the spin about adoption.