Children and Criminal Conviction

criminal conviction: She lost the children, her home and her job. A criminal conviction for assault with a weapon, which the grandmother didn t fight for fear of being deported, means she may never work again, according to The Star. But leaders in the black community say the woman experience typifies the cultural misunderstandings families from the African Diaspora experience in Ontario child welfare system and helps to explain the disproportionate number of black children in care and Patricia moved to Toronto from Jamaica in the late 1980s and was living a comfortable life with her young granddaughters until a run-in with Children Aid two years ago. Patricia name and some of the details of her story have been altered due to child welfare laws that protect the identity of children in care. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.