An Indigenous newborn taken from her mother just hours after birth in an apprehension broadcast live on Facebook is expected to be back home with her family later this week, an advocate for the family says. The infant has spent the five days since in an emergency placement with either a foster family or at a Winnipeg infant shelter where staff feed and change many of the newborns apprehended into care in the province, Cora Morgan, the First Nations Family Advocate at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs said in an interview on Monday. Ms. Morgan said she hoped the child would be returned to her mother and her great-aunt on Wednesday. Neither the hospital nor anyone from Manitoba’s Child and Family Services (CFS) would comment on why the infant girl was taken.
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.
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It's sad that policy still continues in 2020. I also was kidnapped at birth my Birth mother got to hold me for a short period well at least they gave her the rights name her son,she was a survivor of the residential school, also I was involved the the Arena Adoption policy after thirty one placements and two Adoptions I'm still here by the way Tracey if interest I glad to share my story it's one of a kind. They can't take my spirit away from me.
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