Advocate hopeful Indigenous newborn taken by authorities to be returned to family this week
A new born, apprehended from a First Nations mother on camera in Manitoba, is expected to be returned in the next week or so.
Some important points:
The members of the baby’s family, including the mother, said in a news conference Friday that officials with Manitoba’s CFS told them she was removed from St. Boniface Hospital because her mother appeared intoxicated when she arrived at the hospital. The mother vehemently denied this, saying doctors and nurses allowed her to breastfeed, which they would have stopped had they believed she had been drinking.
And:
A total of 354 infants were removed from their families in Manitoba in 2017, 87 per cent of them First Nations; and 259 remained in care 12 months later, putting them on the fast-track for permanent wardship.
As I’ve indicated before, oftentimes being First Nations and poor seem to be cause for apprehension.
The article is linked below.
Advocate hopeful Indigenous newborn taken by authorities to be returned to family this week https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-indigenous-newborn-taken-by-authorities-to-be-returned-to-family-this/
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