Michel Morissette and Monic Beaudoin have been living a real nightmare since April 13.
While they were abroad, employees of the CIUSSS de la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec broke into their residence to take back the four children in their care.
But in what looks like overzealousness, the DPJ also completely emptied the children’s rooms, taking away all their belongings.
“In 36 hours, there was a report, then they came to empty the house,” lamented Mr. Morissette at the microphone of Benoît Dutrizac, via QUB radio.
The couple are accused of having left the two 11-year-old children, the 13-year-old girl and the 17-year-old teenager unsupervised for about an hour, the time that their biological daughter takes the reports to the caretaker.
This is an infraction of foster family regulations which generally results simply in being mentioned in the file.
The DPJ also forbade them any contact with the children without specifying the reason. The couple was indeed met last Tuesday by members of the DPJ, but no satisfactory justification was provided.
“We don’t have the right to talk to children, and we don’t even know why,” protests Mr. Morissette.
Michel Morissette and Monic Beaudoin have been welcoming children for more than ten years.
They show an almost irreproachable file. But now that since the events of April, they risk losing their foster family status.
- Listen to Benoit Dutrizac’s interview with Geneviève Rioux, President of the Federation of Foster Families and Intermediate Resources of Quebec via QUB-radio :
In order to shed full light on the actions of the CIUSSS, Mr. Morissette requested that an administrative investigation be carried out. The request was denied, but the shock was even greater when he was told the reason for the denial.
“I was told that there would be no investigation because my contract had ended since December 2022”, he explains.
And the couple would not be the only foster family in the same situation. This is undoubtedly an admission that raises a lot of questions about the management of foster families by the CIUSSS de la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec, and about the protection of the children under its care. protection.