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SINGAPORE – A judge has denied a bid by the child protection authorities to place a nine-month-old infant, who had been removed from his parents, in foster care.Instead, the judge ordered the boy to be returned to the care of his mother, under the supervisiJudge denies MSF's bid for baby boy to be placed in foster care
SINGAPORE – A judge has denied a bid by the child protection authorities to place a nine-month-old infant, who had been removed from his parents, in foster care.Instead, the judge ordered the boy to be returned to the care of his mother, under the supervision of an approved welfare officer.The father's contact with the child is subject to the officer's approval.In a written grounds of decision published on June 22, district judge Chua Wei Yuan concluded that the child needed protection, but was not persuaded that fostering was the most ideal arrangement.The judge noted that state intervention, especially removing a child from a home, is a measure of last resort.In the current case, each parent was individually capable of taking care of the child.«The real concern was that the parents' relationship was so acrimonious that it would endanger (the child's) safety to place him around both parents at the same time,» said the judge.He said it was not unsafe to leave the child in the care of one parent at one time. Read more
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