Forrest Update: Mom Of Down's Syndrome Baby Charges Dad Of Not Supporting Her Emotionally

Ruzan Badalyan seems to have made news for the wrong reasons. When she first faced the charge of having abandoned her newborn son who was born with Down's syndrome, she said that it was the "hardest moment" of her life.

Her baby, Leo, was born when she was in Armenia. Her husband, Samuel Forrest, had reportedly claimed that she divorced him shortly after Leo was born, according to abcnews.com.

"I remember the sad faces of my relatives and the doctors and the diagnosis that sounded like a verdict: 'Your child was born with a Down syndrome.' One can never imagine my feelings at that moment," Badalyan wrote in a Facebook post. "Hardly had I recovered from the first shock, when the doctor approached me and told me to voice my decision whether I was going to keep Leo or not. I had to make the most ruthless decision in my life within several hours."

She explained that though she thought about his "best destiny" for a long time, her husband, Forrest could accept that the son's interest should be first and that "only his move to another country could remedy the situation."

She too agreed that the best bet for her son would be to move away from a country that had stereotypes about DS children. She said that she "realised that only a move to a country with such standards as New Zealand would entitle my son to a decent life."

Even as Forrest charged her of having taken a final decision as the son had Down's syndrome, Badalyan explained that while she was weighing her options, she did not get his support.

"In the hardest moment of my life when my husband should be next to me and support and help to take the right decision, I could not find any support from his side," she wrote. "After that incident, he left the hospital notifying me hours later that he was taking the kid with him, that he is going to leave the country for New Zealand and I do not have anything to do with the situation. Without giving me any option and trying to find with me any solution in this hardest situation, he started to circulate the story on every possible platform without even trying to give me a voice accusing that I put him an ultimatum marriage or the baby, which is absolutely not true. I tried several times to communicate but he never tried to listen me and to find common solutions. The only response was the accusation from his part.

Forrest is emigrating to New Zealand with Leo. He explained that Badalyan filed for divorce just a week after Leo was born. "Sam has never suggested joining him and bringing up the child together in his country," wrote Badalyan. "Neither did he tell me anything on the day we filed for divorce. The only thing he kept saying was that he didn't want us to separate, whereas my question what we should do always remained unanswered.

"As a mother who has faced this severe situation, being in the hospital under stress and depression, experiencing enormous pressure from every side, not finding any support from my husband's part on any possibilities of giving a child decent life in Armenia, I faced two options: to take care of the child on my own in Armenia, or to abandon my maternal instincts and extend the baby an opportunity to enjoy a decent life with his father in New Zealand. I went for the second option," she continued.

Forrest spared no time to propagate the news of the mother's divorce proceedings, which provoked a barrage of criticism from around the world. She soon became a "hate figure", according to mirror.co.

One man said: "Instead of being his mother and loving Leo you decide to give him away [...] You are sick."

Meanwhile, donations for the father and his child have risen to more than £130,000 in the Goforfund page, and the total is still increasing steadily.