A child protection application by Highland Shores Children's Aid Society seeking Crown wardship of two young children.
The Society alleged the children suffered physical harm and were at risk of emotional harm due to assault by the father, general neglect, parental substance abuse, and the mother's failure to emotionally support the child following disclosure of abuse.
The court found the father assaulted the older child by choking and striking her, and that both children were in need of protection.
The court rejected the parents' alternative plans for care and made both children wards of the Crown for purposes of adoption, with no parental access but with access between the siblings.
