A child protection application under Part III of the Child and Family Services Act seeking a finding that a child born in 2013 is in need of protection and should be made a crown ward with no access for the purpose of adoption.
The respondent mother, aged 19 at trial, opposed the application and sought return of the child to her care, alternatively to the grandmother's care.
The respondent father did not participate and was noted in default.
The child had been apprehended twice and was in the society's care for over 20 months.
The court found the child in need of protection based on the mother's immaturity, anger management issues, depression, poor judgment, inability to maintain stable housing, and failure to comply with court orders and supervision terms.
The court rejected both the mother's and grandmother's plans as inadequate to protect the child and made the child a crown ward with no access to facilitate adoption.
