A TEENAGE mother whose newborn baby was illegally taken from her by Nottingham City Council threw the child during a supervised visit, a court heard.

Judge Michael Stokes QC was told Tammy Green, whose baby was taken away last year, is pregnant again. The new baby is unlikely to remain with her.

The court heard that during the visit in St Ann's on March 12 the baby boy, who is to be adopted, was thrown by Green and caught by a social worker.

She shouted offensive and racist remarks accusing social workers of being "kidnappers" and "baby snatchers".

Green, 19, of Tulip Avenue, St Ann's, admitted cruelty to a child when she appeared at Nottingham Crown Court.

Judge Stokes QC, Recorder of Nottingham, lifted criminal reporting restrictions on naming Green and sentenced her to a two-year community order with supervision and ordered her to complete the Calm programme at the Castle Key probation centre.

He also ordered her to pay £500 towards the cost of the prosecution.

He said: "It is well documented that the social services department acted unlawfully in removing your child from you.

"All they did that was inappropriate was that they took the child from you before they obtained a court order.

"Your subsequent conduct clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt at all that the instinct and judgment of the social workers was entirely correct.

"You are someone completely unsuited to have the care of a child as things presently stand.

"Hopefully you will mature in years to come. Your conduct in March last year was partly prompted by the fact that social services had been criticised in the way they were, hence the offensive remarks at the social workers.

"I want to emphasise that their judgment of you was absolutely sound and they were plainly acting in the interests of your child.

"You've demonstrated your unsuitability not only by your abusive and racist behaviour but also by throwing your son in the direction of one of the social workers."

Judge Stokes said Green was damaged and vulnerable as a result of her own up-bringing and called her "a bad-tempered, feckless, unreliable young woman".

He said he had read reports about Green's self-harming, drug use, depression, excess drinking, temper and attention seeking behaviour.

"If I were to send you to prison now, in my judgment, given the understandable trauma when your child was perfectly rightfully removed from you, it will do more damage than good," he said.

Dawn Pritchard, defending, said her client was expecting another baby in April and knew the child would not be kept with her.