Three children were reunited with their mother recently, just over two years after they were removed from her mother’s custody because of abuse.
Head of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) Anne Greene recently told Stabroek News that the agency was happy with the progress the mother made during the years and felt comfortable to return the children to her care.
“The mother has gotten her life together and she has since married and has the means of taking care of the children,” Greene had told this newspaper. She stated that officers from the agency met with the mother and her husband and the man understood the responsibility of taking the children to live with him and he seemed ready for the challenge.
In June 2010, the children were removed from their mother’s custody after one of the children, then five-years-old, was burnt with hot water by a man with whom his mother then shared a relationship. The man had taken the children to a West Demerara day care centre, where it was immediately realised that the