The youth protection wing of the anglophone social services agency Batshaw is being blasted by a Quebec Court judge for leaving two children with a neglectful foster family for a decade.
The children had been taken away from their mother because she was suffering from drug addiction.
Judge Annie Savard says Batshaw left the kids with the foster family even after noticing the home was filthy and bug-infested, and their education was not being properly attended to.
In an uncommon ruling, Savard faulted the agency for putting the notion of stability of care ahead of the wellbeing of the children.
La Presse reports that the children, now aged 11 and 13, have been returned to their birth mother, who has overcome her drug addiction.