Protect kids from Hamilton CAS, foster parents ask judge.HAMILTON Hamilton, city, Bermuda Hamilton, city (1990 est. pop. 3,100), capital of Bermuda, on Bermuda Island. It is a port at the head of Great Sound, a huge lagoon and deepwater harbor protected by coral reefs. -- Foster parents of two half Native girls have asked a judge to declare that the children need protection from the Children's Aid Society
The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) is a private charitable organization based in New York City. of Hamilton. The foster parents are backed by the Ontario Ontario, city, United States Ontario, city (1990 pop. 133,179), San Bernardino co., S Calif., near Los Angeles, in a region of vineyards; inc. 1891. Ministry of Justice which has appointed a lawyer to represent the children. The CAS has been accused of not acting in the interests of the children because they plan to send the two girls back to their native reserve in B.C. Superior Court Justice George George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). Czutrinare has asked all the lawyers to present arguments to determine whether he has the jurisdiction over the children's aid society's decision to remove the children from the foster homes. The judge still has to determine if he has jurisdiction over the children's aid society's decision to remove the children from the foster homes. He asked the lawyers to present arguments on the jurisdiction issue in early September. The girls were placed with two separate foster parents when one was an infant and the other was one-year old after they had been removed from the home of their mother, who is native, and their father, who is not. They then became Crown wards without the objection A formal attestation or declaration of disapproval concerning a specific point of law or procedure during the course of a trial; a statement indicating disagreement with a judge's ruling. of their parents or the Squamish Nation
The Squamish Nation is an Indian Act government originally imposed on the Sḵwxwú7mesh by the Federal Government of Canada in the late 19th century. in BC. After two years in those foster homes, the children's aid society agreed to a request from the mother's band that the girls be returned to B.C. to be cared for by a woman who works on the reserve as a child care worker in order that they have access to their heritage. Children's Aid Society lawyer, Dave Feliciant stressed that the move to remove the children from their current foster situations is based on the girls' environment, where neither set of foster parents have made any attempt to learn about native culture or to incorporate it in the girls' lives, and statistics indicating that native children are better off with their own people. Meanwhile, the foster parents will continue to house the children until the judge decides if he has the jurisdiction over Crown wards and can intervene intervene v. to obtain the court's permission to enter into a lawsuit which has already started between other parties and to file a complaint stating the basis for a claim in the existing lawsuit. in a CAS decision. |
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