This is a dispositional phase decision in a child protection matter involving two children, J.C. (age 6½) and N.Y. (age 11), who were apprehended from their grandmother's care.
The Children's Aid Society sought Crown wardship with no access for J.C., arguing he was adoptable.
The grandmother sought return of J.C. to her care or, alternatively, access if Crown wardship was ordered.
The court found that J.C. had serious behavioral and mental health issues requiring long-term residential treatment and was not adoptable in the foreseeable future.
The court made J.C. a Crown ward but granted access to his grandmother and sister, finding that such access would not impair future adoption opportunities and that the familial relationships were meaningful and beneficial to the child.
