B.C. couple heartsick as ministry seizes son due to mysterious broken bones
VANCOUVER — Every time she says goodbye to her five-year-old son, his mother struggles to explain why.
“I just say, ‘The ministry is not allowing me to stay with you, honey. They’re afraid. Your legs keep breaking,’” she recalls through tears.
The British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development seized the woman’s two children last month, for the second time, because of unexplained breaks in her son’s legs. Since he was a baby, he has suffered at least a dozen broken bones.
The mother and father cannot be named because their children are in foster care and cannot be identified.