Winnipeg child protection workers seized the baby because of the mother's substance use and mental health issues, CFS workers said in affidavits for the hearings. Video of the girl being apprehended shows her mother sobbing while rocking her newborn back and forth, surrounded by crying family members, before CFS workers take the child away. It shows police and CFS workers apprehending a newborn, CBC has blurred the video due to a law preventing the identification of the children in care. Hoping, praying for changeOn Thursday, the mother told reporters she's already working to beat her addictions. The mother's CFS file says she told social workers she used alcohol, cocaine and OxyContin while pregnant.

Source: CBC News March 21, 2019 20:47 UTC