The fate of the twins at the centre of the transatlantic internet adoption scandal will be considered by a British High Court within the next nine days, according to the Flintshire County Council's chief executive, Mr Philip McGreevy.
Social workers, on behalf of the council, took the two girls into care late last night and have since been accused of snatching the babies by British couple Alan and Judith Kilshaw.
They adopted the twins last December in California after paying £8,200 ($12,000) to online broker, Caring Heart Adoption. However, they claim they were unaware that the girls had already been sold to an American couple for £4,000. The twins had been living with the Allens for two months.
The Kilshaws have decided to mount a legal battle to regain custody of the twins and are angered that they were taken from them yesterday when North Wales Police and social services officials dramatically swooped on the Beaufort Park Hotel close to the market town of Mold.
Ms Judith Kilshaw said she wasn't allowed to say goodbye to the six-month-old sisters and her solicitor husband Alan pledged to fight for them through the courts.
Det Insp Nick Crabtree said a protection order, granted under the Children's Act 1989, was served on the Kilshaws shortly before 9.50 p.m.
Mrs Kilshaw said: "The Government just wanted to make an example of us because we dared to tackle them. As for my good friends and neighbours who said so many things about us, well they can rot in hell."
Solicitor Mr Kilshaw, 45, said the family had already enlisted the help of a leading lawyer and would "fight as long and hard" as necessary, saying: "There is no reason given at all for why they were taken away. We obviously realised it was a possibility. There is a political agenda here."
Reuters