Dad injures first baby; but social worker lifts restrictions allowing dad unsupervised access to 2nd child; now 2nd child blind (Vancouver, Canada)

UNNAMED DAD is quite a role model. He injures the first baby in his care, and gets off with a provisional sentence. Then a second baby comes along. A social worker lifts any restrictions regarding Dad's unsupervised access to the second baby. And poof, within a month, Dad has shaken the baby hard enough to blind him. Oh yea, fathers are really mistreated and misunderstood up there in Canada....

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BC Appeal Court upholds ruling province liable over shaken baby's injuries
(CP) – Oct 1, 2009

VANCOUVER, B.C. — The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld a lawsuit holding the provincial government and the parents of a four-month-old Castlegar infant liable for injuries after the child's father shook him.

In a unanimous ruling, the three-judge appeal panel agreed the social worker supervising a care plan for the baby was negligent because she lifted restrictions that did not allow the father unsupervised access to the child.

A month after the restriction was lifted in August 2002, the father shook the child hard enough to blind him.

The change was made despite the fact the father was convicted earlier in the year of injuring another baby he had in Manitoba - receiving a conditional sentence - and over the misgivings of others involved in the infant's care.

The government's lawyers argued the province should not be held liable because the social worker acted in good faith.

The father was convicted of aggravated assault this time and jailed.