The children's aid society brought a status review application regarding a young child who had been placed in the temporary care of the maternal grandmother after the parents were found to have physically abused the child's half-sibling.
At trial, the society and the parents sought the return of the child to the parents' care subject to supervision, while the maternal grandmother sought custody.
The court found that the parents had made significant rehabilitative efforts and demonstrated appropriate parenting, whereas the maternal grandmother exhibited hypervigilance that risked alienating the child from the parents.
The court ordered the child returned to the parents subject to a six-month supervision order, finding it to be in the child's best interests.
